You might want to sit down for this …
Peyton Manning, for reasons I can’t coherently verbalize/type.
A co-worker of mine had a Nicholson encounter a few years ago when he was in town shooting About Schmidt.
From her description, I wouldn’t call him a *bad *guy, but he was pure Jack.
I had a similar conversation. He’s a good guy, but a little detatched–he doesn’t have the “always on” personality common to most career politicians I know. When he realizes you’re somewhat serious, he’s great. Otherwise, he kind of defaults to “blow-off” mode. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear people call him a jerk. They’d be wrong, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
Ellen DeGeneris is evil. I don’t know why people don’t know that.
Ok, I may regret this but I’ll bite. Your comment is based on what?!?!?
I would agree with this. A guy who spends all his time between movies driving motorcycles around the world does not seem like a huge diva.
I agree on this, too - he practically starts crying when an older lady gives him a hug for fixing her bunged-up house. We saw him give a presentation here a couple of years ago, and I’d say proper home repair is his passion - that’s not put on.
I don’t think Jack Nicholson qualifies for this thread, because you’re kind of expecting some salty behaviour from him.
My additions would be Craig Ferguson and Keanu Reeves. Craig would surprise and sadden me because he’s done so much work to get his life on track, and Keanu because he seems to be just a regular guy who makes movies.
Not sure if I can find a cite, but I’ve heard she’s quite a diva behind the scenes and a pain in the ass to work with, starkly contrasted with her happy-go-lucky stage persona.
Ellen has never sat right with me ever since the Anne Heche affair/breakup. She seems like she could be rather cruel and heartless, her warm exterior belies a cold hard butch lesbian on the inside.
Maybe, but let’s not jump to conclusions until the autopsy is complete.
I might as well chime in and say she’s never set right with me either. Her personality seems phony and contrived for effect. I recall seeing her and her mother on some profile piece checking into a cheap motel prior to a gig in L.A. before she hit the bigtime and she didn’t act anything like she does in the personna she’s developed since. She was irritable, depressed and depressing and seemed like somebody who hated her life. I thought “This woman is a comedian?”.
Plus I’ve read (no cite) that her underlings on her show are forbidden to look at her (cameraman excepted, I suppose :D), and things like that don’t set well either.
Huh? Didn’t Heche go nutty or something? Are you suggesting De Generes made her go nutty and run away from home?
I’ve heard Nathan Lane can be quite the diva himself, but, you know, he is Nathan Lane. Same with Paul McCartney. He should have an ego – he’s Paul McCartney!
Maybe he’s nice half the time?
Well I’d talked to him as an employee a few dozen times since 1992. He wasn’t abusive per se - he just didn’t suffer fools. He knew what he was talking about and if you hadn’t achieved deadline on your deliverables you’d better have been able to explain exactly why you hadn’t. He was no more or less insulting or abusive than any number of lower-level managers I’ve had.
He’s earned the right to that ego!
He didn’t tell people in meetings that their ideas were the stupidest thing he’d ever heard, and things like that?
I’m not sure about Bill Gates’s personal life, but in a work context I might give him a pass. E.g., I’m sure R. Lee Ermey has always been a gentleman outside of Parris Island, but when he’s worked as a DI then shouting at maggots was part of his job.
If either John Clarke or John Doyle proved to be even just run-of-the mill assholes I’d be so buggered I don’t reckon I could throw a gumboot through the window of the Lithgow Shamrocks Clubhouse. You don’t know how lucky we are, Trev.
Paul Rudd. If he was secretly an asshole or a womanizer, I would cry. He just so CUTE. If you turned a LOLCAT into a person, that person would be Paul Rudd. I’ve liked him since 1995. As much as I like him and find him to be a good actor (and funny), I don’t think I would like him anymore if he wasn’t nice.
I don’t know much about him, but always thought he was cool. On his IMDB board, they say he’s a really devote family man.