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Hollywood’s Most Arrogant Celebrities

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Ego, it turns out, is the one prop every A-lister keeps in their trailer.

Nicki Swift’s video rundown “Hollywood’s Most Arrogant Celebrities” runs through eight decades’ worth of entitled behavior, tantrums and quote-tweet-worthy remarks from stars who never met a spotlight they didn’t think they deserved. The list spans Old Hollywood tyrants to modern-day tabloid fixtures, pulling receipts on set blowups, awards-show hijackings and interviews that aged spectacularly poorly. Some of the moments are decades old; a few, like Catherine Zeta-Jones’ June 2018 comments, are practically fresh off the press.

• Gwyneth Paltrow topped Star magazine’s 2013 “Most Hated Celebrity” list after remarks like preferring to “smoke crack than eat cheese from a can.”
• Faye Dunaway allegedly threw urine on Roman Polanski during the filming of Chinatown and made Mommie Dearest costar Rutanya Alda joke that crew needed to “throw a raw steak” into her dressing room before approaching.
• Catherine Zeta-Jones declared in June 2018, “One thing I’m not is humble anymore… So sorry I’m rich, so sorry I’m married to a movie star, so sorry I’m not so bad looking.”

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Tone-Deaf Reign

Paltrow lands at the 0:30 mark and she’s the video’s opening act for a reason. Beyond the crack-versus-canned-cheese line, she’s on record insisting “I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year” and, when pressed on criticism of her work ethic, firing back, “I’m really f***ing good at my job and people who are interesting and good know that.” That combination of remarks is exactly what earned her the top spot on Star’s most-hated list back in 2013, and it’s the kind of material that made her a recurring punching bag long before Goop became a punchline of its own.

“One thing I’m not is humble anymore… So sorry I’m rich, so sorry I’m married to a movie star, so sorry I’m not so bad looking.”

Old Hollywood’s Tyrants Behind the Camera

Faye Dunaway, profiled at 1:43, built her reputation on set-level warfare rather than red-carpet soundbites. The urine-throwing incident aimed at Roman Polanski during Chinatown became industry legend, and her behavior during Mommie Dearest was reportedly bad enough that costar Rutanya Alda joked crew members should toss a raw steak into her dressing room as an offering before knocking. James Cameron, arriving at 5:32, occupies similar territory as a director rather than a performer — his uncompromising, at times tyrannical, command of sets on Titanic and Avatar is well documented, and he cemented his own legend at the 1998 Academy Awards by grabbing his Best Director Oscar and declaring himself “king of the world.”

The Diva Resume: Doherty, Heigl and Zeta-Jones

Shannen Doherty, at 6:50, spent years as the industry’s go-to example of on-set combustion, clashing repeatedly with cast and crew during her runs on Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed. Katherine Heigl, at 8:14, took a different route to the same reputation — publicly branding Knocked Up as sexist despite starring in it, then pulling herself out of 2008 Emmy consideration by criticizing the writing on her own show, Grey’s Anatomy. Catherine Zeta-Jones, at 4:24, has spent years talking about mansions and treating $1 million like pocket change, culminating in her blunt June 2018 admission that humility simply isn’t part of her routine anymore.

The Newer Faces of Entitlement

Miles Teller, at 3:09, made this list almost entirely off the back of a single 2015 Esquire profile that painted him as self-aggrandizing and overconfident — the kind of press hit that follows an actor around for years. Kanye West closes the video at 9:29, and the material practically writes itself: the 2009 MTV VMAs stage-crash, profanity-laced rants aimed at critics over review scores, and public comparisons of himself to historic geniuses. It’s the same territory Nicki Swift has mined elsewhere, including in coverage of how Kanye’s inner circle has responded to his more recent outbursts.

None of these eight are new to this conversation, which is really the point — Nicki Swift has built an entire content vein out of stars who can’t get out of their own way, from the celebrities who treat their own staff like disposable help to the actors who make their own costars miserable on set. Paltrow’s crack-versus-cheese line and Dunaway’s raw-steak legend have been recycled in listicles for years for the same reason Zeta-Jones’ 2018 quote landed instantly: they’re quotable, they’re specific, and nobody involved has ever bothered to walk them back.