In Their Own WordsActors' firsthand accounts of their work and personal lives as described in press junkets, talk shows, the red carpet, and their own personal media.
November 23, 2021 1.7k votes 373 voters 22.2k views
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Vote up the questions you'd get tired of answering over and over.
Perhaps the least enviable part of being a celebrity is dealing with annoying fans. However, there are myriad levels of annoyance, the lower of which are easier to handle. It's one thing for a fan to be shy and awkward when meeting a celebrity (every person may devolve into a diffident mess when encountering their hero), but it's another thing to confidently ask the same question the celebrity's been asked a thousand times.
This list features over a dozen celebrities and the questions they must be sick of answering - yet we've included their answers, as well.
In 1976, Robert De Niro, playing a troubled NYC cabbie named Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, mesmerized moviegoers with a manic mirror monologue concerning the phrase, "You talkin' to me?"
People have long wondered what lurks under Dolly Parton's customary long-sleeve blouses. The most common assumption was tattoos, which was proven correct, but it's not the whole story:
I don’t really like to make a big to-do of [the tattoos] because people make such a big d*mn deal over every little thing... But most of the tattoos, when I first started, I was covering up some scars that I had, 'cause I have a tendency to have keloid scar tissue, and I have a tendency where if I have any kind of scars anywhere, then they kind of have a purple tinge that I can never get rid of. So mine are all pastels, what few that I have, and they’re meant to cover some scars. I’m not trying to make some big, bold statement.
Hopefully, she laid that question to rest.
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Mark Ruffalo: ‘Can I Get A Picture? Who Are You Again?’
Playing a sexy vampire on a popular TV show has some strange side effects, such as impromptu S&M requests from strangers. Take The Vampire Diaries' Paul Wesley:
[People] want me to bite them... It really does occur. Like, often. I bit a girl on the arm once. She was really happy. Don't ask. People that ask me to bite them don't quite exactly fit the category of "normal" to begin with.
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Channing Tatum: ‘Can You Say Hi To My Daughter?’ (As He Waits For The Person To Call Said Daughter)
Elaborating, he said, "The generic answer is, I just like to work. I can’t analyze why a part is good or not. Dress me in the armor and cloak and it makes me look handsome, I guess. I hope."
