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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

— Lauren Bacall

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors.

— Billy Crudup

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

— Lauren Bacall

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

— Winona Ryder

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

— Barry Corbin

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

— Paul Haggis

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

— Tina Yothers

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

— Daniel Baldwin

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

— Jason Patric

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

— Clint Eastwood

Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.

— Viggo Mortensen