I seldom find anything positive to say positive about movie stars. But here are a couple of quotes worth noting:
In a Sunday NY Times article on Ethan Hawke:
Mr. Hawke speaks of his wife with great devotion, yet he says he cannot abide the many celebrities who boast about their idyllic relationships until they fall apart. “I like to talk about the reality of it,” Mr. Hawke says. “You hear so much about marriage from famous couples, and they make it seem like some big fantasy. Other people read about what they say and believe it, and it makes them feel worse about their own marriages. I love being married. Marriage saved me from narcissism and self-absorption. But you never hear from famous people about how marriage is hard work. It’s about learning how to love someone and being loved, and it isn’t always easy.”
In a TV Guide Canada article on Michael J. Fox:
“Sometimes, when my pills aren’t working, it’s difficult to use my hand, difficult to speak, difficult to move. Sometimes when my pills are working, I get dyskinetic. I say, ‘So what?’ I can’t do all the things that I used to do. But at the same time . . . it changed me fundamentally. I, a lot of times, call this a gift — it’s a gift that keeps on taking. But it’s been a gift in the sense that it’s really opened me up to not taking things for granted, to having a more empathetic view of other people’s situations.”