"When it comes to movie stars, the standards seem to stretch and shift more easily than they do for..."

“When it comes to movie stars, the standards seem to stretch and shift more easily than they do for the rest of us. We’re apt to excuse the simply bad deeds of the rich and famous, and try to forget altogether the atrocious ones. We celebrate celebrities’ normal life milestones (giving birth, getting married) with a strange kind of fervor, and somehow when an actress picks up a box of Oreos or pushes her toddler on a swing set, it’s infinitely more exciting than if we’d done it ourselves. (Which is perplexing, as in only one of those scenarios do we actually end up with the Oreos.)”

- Carrie Neil, ”Stars Are Just Like Us: On Christine Sneed and Celebrity Disparity” (via millionsmillions)