Heather Mills Quotes

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things.

I just kind of wanted to do something where you don't just see 'Kardashian' everywhere.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

Reality programming and social media make the game board bigger; they increase the number of runners on the track, each lunging at the finish line to be the first chest to hit the tape.

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

This celebrity culture that hypnotizes people into thinking a person is literally not real because you see them on television is a spell the watcher him- or herself must break.

I am obsessed by Kim Kardashian; I do try to find out what Kim's up to.

Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.

Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.

One of the many things I hate about Donald Trump is that he embodies a kind of very popular popular culture that, as near as I'm able to perceive and stomach, is of no quality whatsoever.

With social media now, we kind of get that inside look at WWE Superstars' lives.

I think the relentless tide of celebrity stuff on the telly is getting pretty tedious.

I think people are interested in celebrities because it's easy, disposable entertainment and it's fun escapism.

I don't get starstruck by musicians anymore, but podcasts? I'm a total podcast groupie.

Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in Tamil Nadu, and people vote for that image.

I have been talking about social issues on YouTube for a long time now. I think it's very important in terms of being able to reach people around the world and people who have never been exposed to certain topics or are maybe misinformed about certain things.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.