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Daily Inspiration Quote by Paris Hilton

"Some people change when they think they're a star or something"

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Paris Hilton’s line lands like a shrug, but it’s a neatly sharpened little weapon: a comment on celebrity inflation delivered by someone who helped turn fame itself into a product. The phrasing is doing most of the work. “Some people” keeps it safely indirect, letting her critique without naming names. “Think they’re a star” is the key verb: think. It’s not that they are important; it’s that the belief curdles them. Then she undercuts the whole premise with “or something,” that Valley-girl trailing off that reads as casual but functions like a pin. Stardom, she implies, is often vague, self-declared, and therefore ripe for self-delusion.

The intent feels defensive and observational at once: a warning about how status can rewire someone’s manners, loyalties, and sense of scale. Coming from Hilton, it’s also meta-commentary. She was both mocked and mythologized in the early 2000s as a prototype of “famous for being famous,” and she learned firsthand how quickly attention rearranges a room. The subtext is that fame doesn’t merely reveal personality; it edits it, rewarding performance over sincerity. People start treating relationships like press opportunities, slights like headlines.

Culturally, the quote sits at the hinge between tabloid celebrity and the later influencer era. Hilton’s offhand delivery anticipates a world where “being a star” is increasingly a mindset you can adopt online - and where the most obvious tell is how fast someone starts acting like the rules no longer apply.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hilton, Paris. (2026, January 18). Some people change when they think they're a star or something. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/some-people-change-when-they-think-theyre-a-star-16115/

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Hilton, Paris. "Some people change when they think they're a star or something." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/some-people-change-when-they-think-theyre-a-star-16115/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Some people change when they think they're a star or something." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/some-people-change-when-they-think-theyre-a-star-16115/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Paris Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is a Celebrity from USA.

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