Michael Korda Quotes

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

Having casual conversations with the likes of Lena Dunham and Kim Kardashian makes me weak in the knees. I have so much respect and admiration for Lena that it doesn't matter how many times I talk to her - I get starstruck.

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.

I really don't think I could get starstruck with anybody. Famous final words, but I just don't think I could.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.

I've been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.

People don't know what star-struck is until they've met Tom Hanks.

It's nice to have famous people love you.

I feel bad about that, that I worship celebrities... but their moods create weather.

The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.

You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they're not reachable.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

In this business, if you're a success, there's some folks who actually worship you. I have been to some places where it's impossible to walk across the stage without having the major portion of my outfit torn off for souvenirs.

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.

The relationship between stars and their fans is always ambivalent and often highly charged with contradictory and ambivalent emotions, of which the most powerful is need.

Fans look up to us, and that's creepy.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.