"One thing you learn as a celebrity – indeed
one of the only things you learn as a celebrity –
is to always be
delighted," explains international
'it girl' C.C. Rimbaud. "Wherever you are,
whatever
you're doing, someone will catch it on camera.
Tens of
thousands, hundreds of thousands of people
are going to see you buy that Almond Joy
at
Duane Reade, hail that taxi in the rain outside
Joe Allen, try to find your mobile phone in your
purse under a street light on St. Mark's Place at
three in the
morning. And the only way that
anyone wants to see a celebrity look is delighted.
People
look at a picture of a celebrity frowning,
or pouting, or holding a hand towards the camera,
and
they think: that celebrity has all the money
in the world. That celebrity pays someone to
pay someone to do her laundry. The least she
could do is be grateful. So be grateful.
When someone tells
a joke, laugh hard.
Be delighted. When you're walking down
the
street and someone says 'How about
a smile for the fans?', give 'em a smile
for
the fans. Be delighted. Picture flopped?
Car totaled? House burned down?
Delight,
delight, delight. You have a job.
Your job is to be delighted. Throw back
your
head and laugh out loud. Do your job."
