AngelicScars

I remember way back when I first saw him in Home and Away (quite addictive show, been watching it for 13 years or so...), and when I then realised that he was one of the people in 10 things I hate about you, I was like 'awsome'. I can't really believe that he is gone. He was so talented. I really feel for his family. There's nothing more to say really....

I remember that song. It was the song and the video combined that really got me.

 

Also, Kelly Clarkson's video to "Because of You" made me cry. At the time I couldn't what the feck she was saying but the video really moved me.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLi0yBmPe0k

I totally agree with you. "Because of you" made me cry before I saw the video, but it made me cry even more when I saw it. This is basically because that's how my life is right now. Other songs that make me cry is Christina Aguilera's "I'm OK".

"Any other world" is the Mika song that make me cry, because I totally get what it is about.

So, in the past few weeks I've posted stuff EVERYWHERE...and the common theme has been getting down to the fact that I want to be famous.

 

Some understood and didn't make me feel bad...others were a bit confused and shall I say "irritated..."

 

But I explained myself: I want to be an actress/writer. Obviously for both of these professions, a sign of success would be FAME.

 

I think wanting to be famous can be a "dirty" thing if you don't have good intentions.

 

I will never do reality TV or anything trashy like that to get it. I know the kind of work I'm in for.

 

But people ask me why I want others to know me?

*That's all I've ever wanted...To make a difference in someone's life. See, Mika did that for me and so have countless other "famous" people. They put their talent and their love for their craft on display, and often times create refuges for people to collapse into.

 

FILM: I want to help people get away from life for a few hours and just watch a story... I want to help people sympathize with the characters I play. I love the feeling: Going into a movie theater one way and leaving a different person (even if that feeling only lasts into the night...how wonderful is it?) Movies are my passion and so is writing.

 

BOOKS: I want people to read my books and be like "Wow! I can relate to this character...for once I don't feel so strange in this world...Here is someone who is like me." That's why I started writing the book I'm working on now: as a means of coping with my life as it is...The character is basically ME in the 1920's- 30's. I felt like since I can't find someone like me to relate to, to tell my story to, I would create someone. Isn't that cool? IT's like a puppet show!

 

 

So, I want to be famous and use that fame for good. I know it's typical to use angelina jolie as an example, but I must. She's done great things. But another example is Audrey Hepburn. After she filmed her last movie, she went on to help children all over the world.

 

With the money gained from fame, I want to change things...I want to pass on the word and use my celebrity to bring awareness to the issues I care about: PETA, FINCA... etc etc...

 

 

So my questionS:

*DO YOU WANT TO BE FAMOUS?

*WILL YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR LIFE IS COMPLETE IF YOU BECOME FAMOUS?

*WHAT IS YOUR IMPRESSION OF FAME TODAY? THE GOOD AND THE BAD?

 

 

*ULTIMATLEY, WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR OWN PERSONAL SUCCESS?

I would love to be a published writer, and I am in the process of writing a book, and I have been writing it for years. I do this because I love to write, I have always loved to write. It is a way for me to channel my feelings and deal with them, for lets face it, I basicly write about my own life, well at the moment. But I would never write to become famous. I don't want to be famous really. I want recognition for what I do, of course, everyone want that, but I am so much more than a writer that hasn't been published.

In six months I'm a qualified learning disability nurse, and I already know I do something that matters to other people, thats why I have no reason to want to be famous. I don't need the whole world to see "what a wonderful person" I am, because I mostly do it for my own benefit anyway. It makes me feel good to work with people who have different challenges than me. But my profession doesn't require me to get that side effect that fame is. I need to have the right values and the right attitudes to be good at what I do. Someone who is born to entertain people, either it is acting, singing or writing, sad to say, depend on getting "famous".

I don't think you get a better life if you're famous. Fame has become something dirty because everyone wants to be famous. People will do anything to get their 15 minutes in the spotlight, and I think it crosses over to pathetic many times. People rather be famous than smart. I realise that I probably wouldn't have heard Mika's music if he hadn't become 'famous', and that would have been really sad because I love his music, but I still don't see fame as a positive thing. I would say that most famous people are just like you and me, I don't count the ones that would do anything to be famous, since they mostly don't live like 'normal' people, and being famous is a side effect of them doing what they love to do. All the papparazzi and the following around, all the rumours, all the speculations, all the talk about all these people, it gets really boring and annoying. But that's just me anyway.

My own personal success is the fact that I have managed to do so much positive with my life. Let's just say Mika and me have experienced much of the same things growing up, like probably many of you as well, and I think I have done quite well for myself considering everything I've been through. But I like my life and I love my friends, so that's my personal success.

Apocalyptica - Nothing Else Matters

If I am not mistaken, I think I saw an interview were he actually talks about it. And I think he said something about his dad wanting to name him Michael, but his mum isn't a big fan of the whole junior naming, and sat her foot down, and thats why they ended up naming him Mica.