I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.
Rebecca Black
Related I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN I'm obsessed with how people talk! Accents, dialects... So whenever I go someplace where an acce... STERLING K. BROWN Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up ... ELLEN DEGENERES I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They ar... MADELINE ZIMA I still feel like the same girl who grew up in Albion Park. I'm such a family girl. I haven'... CASEY EASTHAM I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always f... CHER It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm... HAMISH LINKLATER A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'... VAN MORRISON I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who e... DARIUS RUCKER I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they gr... EMILY BETT RICKARDS I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX. BECKY G One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely d... CHARLES BARKLEY I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was... FKA TWIGS With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what... CARA BUONO Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' the... DONNA LYNN HOPE I'm pretty good with talking to girls if I have an introduction, but I'm the worst at trying... BRYAN GREENBERG I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch. WANDA JACKSON People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids... TORI SPELLING I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt. LAURA VANDERVOORT I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people w... AMBER HEARD I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in th... ANNA SILK I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons... BARBARA KRUGER I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantage... TOM HOLLANDER I'm a black belt in karate. I grew up on the outskirts of Paris, and it was rough. ELODIE YUNG Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manne... ANNA CAMP I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up bei... KATHARINE ISABELLE I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I'v... BECK When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around... KARYN PARSONS I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico. RAUL LABRADOR I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was ... LAURA WADE I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white... CHAD HUGO I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I wa... MINDY KALING Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been tha... ELIZABETH OLSEN If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who... DENIS LEARY I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether the... JOHN F. KENNEDY I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the ... BRIDGET FONDA I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's ... BLAKE SHELTON I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It'... ALEX LIFESON My sisters were the coolest people I knew, and still are. I have always aspired to be like them and ... ROB SHEFFIELD I'm always trying to be a good example to people and always trying to do something cool. I reall... LUCKY BLUE SMITH I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the fa... JEFF BAENA I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for ... JOEL EDGERTON I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, wa... EDGAR WRIGHT I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or ... CHAD HUGO It's not like I grew up playing pranks on people, and I was not that girl in school. ELLEN DEGENERES Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up ... JENNY LEWIS When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people... BRAD WENSTRUP I grew up in Columbia, Maryland, a planned community built during the sixties. During the early year... MICHAEL CHABON Because I'm a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the... CAMILA CABELLO For me, it's about being comfortable... but I can feel comfortable in a thong leotard and on sta... JILLIAN HERVEY I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in t... EDDIE VAN HALEN Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else ... PAULA GARCES Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a... PRIYANKA CHOPRA I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it b... ADRIAN GRENIER I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how. JIMMY CHIN I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But peo... JONATHAN KING My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mu... NICK OFFERMAN The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomo... AVA DUVERNAY When I grew up, my dad always used to watch 'Star Trek' and any and every sci-fi show you co... ERICA CERRA I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If ... RUSSELL CROWE I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our b... JENNIFER LOPEZ I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat insid... CHER I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as... MARA BROCK AKIL I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of moment... GUY PEARCE A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life. ALANA STEWART Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm headi... CLARENCE THOMAS Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wan... TIM SCOTT I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, q... BEN DANIELS I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd. A. J. MCLEAN I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed. ERIC CLOSE I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and ... LUCAS GRABEEL I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up... PAT CONROY A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to wor... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting... JONI MITCHELL My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to ... MARIAH CAREY I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exerci... KELLY OSBOURNE I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies. RYAN GOSLING People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's ... LESLIE BIBB I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's wh... TROMBONE SHORTY I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw... BILL BRYSON I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me. BOB MARLEY I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they ... SARAH HYLAND People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate abo... RUPERT MURDOCH I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want ... GARY JOHNSON I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care... NICOLE SCHERZINGER You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anythin... GAIL COLLINS As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wou... JARVIS COCKER I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch... MARY J. BLIGE Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - fo... ERIC HOLDER I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. JIMMY FALLON I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea ... SOPHIE OKONEDO I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up. RACHEL HUNTER I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'... BOBBY SEALE I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. ... EMILY RIOS I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passion... JOSH KEATON There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do tha... NATE ROBINSON I'm always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excite... MARCIA GAY HARDEN I'm a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows. ERIC STONESTREET The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say... BRITTANY HOWARD People always brand me as this person who is anti-Brady, and I don't think that I ever have been... EVE PLUMB
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REBECCA MACKINNON Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand ou... REBECCA MACKINNON One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about B... REBECCA TRAISTER Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies wi... REBECCA MACKINNON I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you wi... REBECCA HALL People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pr... REBECCA WEST I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I ... REBECCA STEAD Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Commun... REBECCA MACKINNON I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable. REBECCA HALL I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents. REBECCA ROMIJN I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a s... REBECCA PIDGEON Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are ge... REBECCA MACKINNON I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky ... REBECCA WELLS It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abet... REBECCA MACKINNON It was impossible for Hillary Clinton to have chosen a path to the White House that bypassed the loa... REBECCA TRAISTER Sometimes Geraldine feels like she can drive forever. Maybe that’s partially why she took a job at... REBECCA MCNUTT 'Living Single' was on in early 1990s - the show about Queen Latifah living with a bunch of ... REBECCA TRAISTER Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a s... REBECCA SOLNIT Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. REBECCA JOHNSON There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them ... REBECCA WEST The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the exp... REBECCA BEARD The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the expe... REBECCA BEARD In England and America, a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable th... REBECCA WEST