Celebrity Smart Quotes

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I'm curious about Jessica's insistence that "our" image was not in "our" control. She touches on something very important for every woman to remember when they find themselves in a feminist feud: The blame lies with the men in power who would tell (or bribe or force upon) women how to act, what to wear, what to say, etc etc. But for Jessica, that man was her freakin' DAD! I don't care if he was struggling with being closeted or what the hell was going on with him back then, he was creepy AF. Of course, it's all worked out and Jessica can thank him for those billions of bucks, but I wonder if she and her sister ever confronted their dad over his past weirdness or just let it slide.

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A funny but clever little speech from Chris O’Dowd
He was being honored at an Oliver Wilde awards event.

[kanding]

Truly the best Chris.

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Some wonderful advice to actors(indeed all artists and humans) from the Lovely much missed Alan Rickman

[GirlyGhoul]

Jun 20, 2019 8:28:59 GMT -4 @fitz said:

Some wonderful advice to actors(indeed all artists and humans) from the Lovely much missed Alan Rickman

By Grabthor's Hammer, what a treasure he was!

[Mouse]

This quote from Robert Pattinson is awesome:

I always say about people doing Method acting, you only ever see people doing method when they're playing an asshole. You never see someone just being lovely to everyone going, "I'm really deep in character."

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Nov 13, 2019 15:47:56 GMT -4 Mouse said:

This quote from Robert Pattinson is awesome:

I always say about people doing Method acting, you only ever see people doing method when they're playing an asshole. You never see someone just being lovely to everyone going, "I'm really deep in character."

Dang, he's right. Method is really just an excuse for guys to act like assholes and get away with it.

[Auroranorth]

Nov 13, 2019 18:00:05 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

Nov 13, 2019 15:47:56 GMT -4 Mouse said:

This quote from Robert Pattinson is awesome:

Dang, he's right. Method is really just an excuse for guys to act like assholes and get away with it.

And it always seems to be guys who do this.

WHY DO WE NEVER HEAR ABOUT FEMALE METHOD ACTORS?

[Mouse]

I liked this quote from Jaleel White about his relationship with Bill Cosby. It's preferable to Phylicia Rashad's equivocating:

I actually had a bit of a falling out with Mr. Cosby. I kept that to myself. Knocking off these monuments who are still human beings, it’s tough. And you go back in time, and you realize how close you were to something, and you put yourself in rooms where you realize his wife wasn’t there, that woman was probably there for that purpose. You know, it’s a hell of a hindsight thing to look at, and you don’t want anyone to feel like you’re trying to use them for clout. You know what I’m saying? A revered man did terrible things, and he’s paying the price. I think that’s where we leave it: A revered man did a terrible thing, and he is paying the appropriate price.

[hildymatildy]

I happened upon Wil Wheaton's vlog, where he gives his opinion to someone who told him that they had been a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and how the show comforted her in her teen years and during her father's death, but felt odd watching it after all the Joss Whedon stuff. His take is something I can embrace.

I have been precisely where you are, right now. In fact, we were just talking about this a few days ago, as it relates to a guy who wrote a ton of music that was PROFOUND to me when I was a teenager. He wrote about being lonely and feeling unloved, and all the things I was feeling as a teenager.

He grew up to be a reprehensible bigot, and for years I couldn’t listen to one of the most important bands in my life anymore.

But this week, someone pointed out that he was one member of a group that all worked together to make that thing that was so important to me. And the person he was when he wrote those lyrics is not the person he is today. And the person I was when I heard those lyrics doesn’t deserve to be shoved into a box and put away, because that guy is a shit.

This is a long way of saying that Joss sure turned out to be garbage. Because of who I my friends are, I know stuff that isn’t in the public, and it’s pretty horrible. He’s just not a good person, and apparently never was a good person.

BUT! Buffy is more than him. It’s all the actors and crew who made it. It’s all the writers who aren’t Joss. Joss is part of it, sure, and some of the episodes he wrote are terrific.

At least one of the episodes he wrote was deeply meaningful to you at a moment in your life when you’d experienced a loss I can only imagine. The person you are now, and the 16 year-old you were who just lost their dad, are more important than the piece of shit Joss Whedon revealed himself to be.

His bad behavior is on him. He has to live with it, and the consequences of it.

16 year-old you, who just lost their dad, shouldn’t have to think about what a shit Joss Whedon is for even a second. That kid, and you, deserve to have that place to revisit when you need to go there.

I can’t speak for the other actors, even the ones I know. But I will tell you, as an abuse survivor myself who never wanted to be in front of the camera when he was a kid: it’s really okay for you to enjoy the work. The work is good and meaningful, and if nobody is going to watch it because of what one piece of shit did two decades ago, what was it all for?

I’m not the pope of chilitown, so take this for what it’s worth: I believe that when some piece of art is deeply meaningful to a person, for whatever reason, that art doesn’t belong to the person who created it, if it ever did. It belongs to the person who found something meaningful in the art.

If it feels right to you to put it away and never look at it again, that’s totally valid. But if it brings you comfort, or joy, or healing, or just warm familiarity to bring it out and spend some time with it, that’s totally valid, too.

I’ve written a lot of words. I hope some of them make sense and are helpful to you.