Is it just me or do other people not care if someone else is a “celebrity.” I like movies and all, but it seems some people just love certain actors and actresses and would love to be famous. I think it would really suck. I don’t think I would like going into a restuarant and have everyone stare at me and try to get an autograph.
No kidding! + Britney Spears is the biggest phony I’ve ever heard of!
I would prefer to be “respected” by my peers for my artistic achievements and abilities. Fame is fleeting. For 15-minutes, the media will deem you “THE” person with “IT”. Then, it’s over - and the media ain’t kind.
Ugh. Give me a life with good beer, good food, good times with my soul-mate, friends, and family over the emptiness of "celebrity-ness" anyday. ;-)
I have a very wealthy friend from Egypt that was in Hollywood several months ago. He was in a store where his wife was trying on some clothes, and he just happened to sit next to Tom Cruise. Didn’t even know who the guy was. Now you’ve got to know my friend – he doesn’t watch movies at all, can’t endure sitting in one place so long. But also he’s a very friendly guy, and just starts up conversations everywhere he goes, meets new people, etc. So he’s sitting there, and looks over and says “Hi, my name’s Samir. How are you doing?” And Tom shakes his hand, says “Hi” and such. They talk a while, and when they leave the store, his wife goes “Do you know who that was?” It was funny hearing that one. But me, no, star types don’t impress me much at all.
I would have absoultely nothing against all that money. Could not care less about fame and shit like that.
Yep-could’t care less about ‘stars’-sports, film, what ever. Not that I begrudge them a thing (yes, unabashed sour grapes when it comes to salaries…) it is just that I am a true misanthrope. I believe it was Patricia that mentioned putting on a game face when working out and being taken for a ‘bitch’. That’s how I am. I want ZERO interaction-just work-out and get out. That being said, maybe five years ago I was doing my morning stint on the StairClimber watching SquawkBox when the woman next to me-all frenzied with excitement-asked me if I knew who had been next to me for the past twenty minutes. Clint Eastwood had come and gone and she could not quite comprehend my very honest lack of interest. Then the athletes…I am going to be majorly flamed here…but I really don’t get it. Maybe it is the whole sad need to be a ‘team’ thing, or seeing all the monitors at the gym last weekend tuned to some guy hitting a ball into a hole with a club. I am sure that it is a ‘talent’ and a ‘skill’ but Lord help me, I JUST DON’T GET IT. Last year I walked into a Sunglass Hut just wanting my Killer Loops and happened to notice a big hog of a man with a flurry of activity around him. When he left I was asked if I got his autograph, etc. Somebody had to tell me who he was and I really still didn’t know. Tony Siragusa looks like every other fat guy from 'Jersey. I was happy to learn that he actually is a nice guy-some of these ‘stars’ are nasty pieces of crap. And last night at the gym I found out that the commotion was about Ray Lewis working out. At least that was a name I had heard but I thought he was a boxer. Maybe he is. Sadly for me, happily for him, my BF is star struck and I have waited with him in many lines to get an autograph. I find it all really humiliating. So see?-I have paid dearly for my lack of interest many times over. One person I’d really like to hang out with would be Sandra Bernhard. I’ll admit that. Just hang out at a sidewalk table in Soho and goof on people. And make her pay the tab AND leave the tip. On the other hand, what if she turned out to be really boring or just yammered on and on about her kid? Hmmmmmm…just another star.
I’m with you on the sports thing: I don’t like team sports, team playing, or team players. I’m way too competitive to share glory or to have to accept defeat because one of my teammates fucked up. Most celebrities I couldn’t give a shit about, but I’d love to hang with Bono and the rest of the gang from U2. I love their music, and they seem interesting.
It’d be fun as long as you don’t take it too seriously.
Yeah but I’d still fuck her. LOL. 
Gotta agree with most everyone on this topic. I can appreciate the talent of an athlete, musician or actor, but I could care less about meeting any of them. I used to bartend at a sports bar on my old university campus. It’s attached to a hockey facility that holds summer camps for rich kids. They always pay big name NHL stars to come for a couple of days and do some pr stuff. Usually these guys would hang at the bar and I would’nt even know who they are, (and I like hockey). I would’nt know who they were until the manager would fall all over himself giving them free food and beer. I would always ask the manager why he would give these guys all this free stuff when they had more than enough money to pay. While the money might be kind of nice, I would prefer to cruise through life realatively anonymous.