“There’s an expression I referred to when they gave me an honorary Academy Award — somebody said to me the day before, they were talking about getting this award and being famous and they said ‘You’re ‘80s famous’. I thought, wow, that’s cool. ‘80s famous. Right, we were different. We were tougher. We didn’t have social media, we didn’t have any of that crap. We were just famous. Left to our own resources. And it was an amazing time…”
Michael on whether he thinks becoming famous back then was harder than it is today.
“Well, you had to be talented. That helped. We used to bust our ass, our acting muscles and watch other actors and sit around with other actors and talk about acting and talk about it. And now you’ve got people who just go like, who’s your sweater? What’s your sweater you’re wearing? And what’s that dance step? And you’re the most famous person in the world.”
– Michael J. Fox, to The Hollywood Reporter.
He’s not wrong. I blame the Kardashians. Between them and Paris Hilton, they gave rise to this whole notion of “being famous for being famous”. Ugh.