Casey Affleck Quotes

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

Every week, there's a different equivalent of Charlie Sheen having a breakdown. I knew about Kim Kardashian getting married - and then getting divorced - and there's no reason I should. I don't have hostility toward Kim Kardashian - just toward the people who take that stuff seriously.

I'm obsessed with celebrities and fame. I always will be.

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

Back when I was competing I had a lot of fans wanting my autograph, wanting to take my picture, but nothing like what my son is dealing with.

Everybody cheats on the Kardashians.

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

Outside my house in Delhi, you will find at least 10 guys waiting to catch a glimpse of me.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.