The long quote of the day comes from Brad Pitt (yes, Brad Pitt), who makes a lot of sense here (and YES–I am very selectively quoting Mr. Pitt):

Pitt said he was frustrated by the fact that his personal life has been the subject of a media frenzy while the humanitarian crisis in Africa has received relatively little attention.
“I can’t get out of the press. These people can’t get in the press. So let’s redirect the attention a little bit,” says Pitt. “It drives me mental seeing what I’ve seen and knowing that it doesn’t show up in our news every day. I mean literally, thousands of people died today!”
While he was in Africa, an ABC News search found 896 articles about Pitt. His Google count is now up to 2.7 million entries.
“It’s a strange focus, isn’t it?” he asked. “That my relationships or relationship mishaps takes precedent over something like that [the situation in Africa] … I understand it’s about entertainment, but man, it’s misguided a bit, isn’t it?”
He marveled at the prices that celebrity publications paid for pictures of him with Jolie and her son in Africa — estimated at $500,000 to $750,000.
“It’s an amazing fact, the bounty that’s on my head and the lengths that these people go to get these shots and the amount of money that they’re paying for these shots,” he said. “I can’t help but think what that money could have gone to. Hell, I would have set up the damn pictures myself.”
When asked why people should listen to him, or other celebrities, just because they’re famous, he said: “I don’t know that we should … I don’t believe people should listen to me. I’m hoping the images … will speak for themselves.”