Jennifer Garner Quotes

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

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

Movie stars are now less remote, less fantasized.

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

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? I couldn't think of anything worse.

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

I don't want to be a reality retro star.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.