I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable.
Interpretation
Sudden fame can be overwhelming and discomforting, requiring adjustments to everyday activities.
In this quote, Scarlett Johansson reflects on the unexpected challenges that come with sudden celebrity. She shares her personal experience of how normal activities, like buying pizza, become invasive due to media attention, highlighting the uncomfortable reality that accompanies fame and the adjustments one must make to cope with this new level of scrutiny and disruption in daily life.
In practice
In a discussion about the effects of fame on mental health, you might use this quote to illustrate the unexpected pressures of public life.
Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind.
I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.
Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.
English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.
We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.
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