| On Fame |
[11 Jan 2007|11:53pm] |
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Renee Zellweger - Nowadays |
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LIFE: What was the hardest part about 2006 for you?
ZELLWEGER: Well, I'm sure that if you buy groceries, you might have read something about it. It's not on the top of my favorite things that have ever happened. [Her eyes well up] I'm not a superficial person. I don't care about what's on the grocery-store shelves. That's just salt in the wound. But it's not a television show. I lived it. [A breakup] is a very sad experience for anyone to go through, and it's not fun when people decide that it's a lovely thing to capitalize on. But you're oblivious to that because you are living the reality of the experience which is devastating.
LIFE: But is there anything that you feel you need to change about your life in the coming year?
ZELLWEGER: Yes. I need to find a way to manage the things that are very difficult for me in terms of fame. I need to find a way to have more grace in certain situations. I'm not good at the majority of things that come [with celebrity]. I like my job. I don't mind getting up at three in the morning on the Isle of Man, working in a cowshed that smells like poo. I'm okay with 16-hour days. I'm okay with living out of my suitcase. I am not good at the commodification of me as a person, it's dehumanizing. I'm not good at it because my values are different than that, and so I'm disappointed by it. [But] it's not my place to be disappointed by it. I need to find a way to be okay with those things.
LIFE: Is it a question of trying to distance yourself from it? To care less about what's written about you?
ZELLWEGER: It's hard to not care. It takes a long time to realize the only way to win is to resign yourself to losing, because then you lose less. Because you are going to lose. There are going to be people who capitalize on your losses, on your sadness, and they'll create it. I expect that if I have a personal crisis, somebody is going to sell magazines because of it. I expect that there will be paparazzi in the street. I accept that. It's the other side of [fame]. I've [seen] stories where people speculate about what it is that [you're] saying based on your body language. It's incredible to me that that's where our society has gone.
I really love this girl!! Witty!
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