Eric Stoltz Quotes

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

Robert Downey Jr. doesn't work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles martial arts studio.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

I've seen a lot of actors in a lot of different stages of their careers, and I've seen it come and go. People get a sense of entitlement from it. And that's when it starts getting you in trouble.

The only privilege star kids enjoy is a good launch. That, of course, is important.

It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.

I am a much bigger star than Kane.