Celebrities who volunteer off camera. My company has a big volunteer day every year and I happened to be in LA for it one year. As we were gathering with my work group, this a-list actor walks by, greeting the workers by name. He picked up a pair of gloves and got to it.

Anonymous wrote:Doubtful. The kind of person who pursues that sort of constant visibility and fame isn’t well adjusted with good values. I’m not sure why that isn’t obvious. It’s like running for president—the kind of person who thinks they should rule over everyone else isn’t well adjusted with good values. The megalomaniacs, narcissists, borderline personalities, and pathologically avaricious among us do better in the limelight. You don’t want those people hanging around the office and they typically cause chaos in normal settings. The well regulated, securely attached, high values people of the world do better in private and mundane pursuits. Both types of people have their place in the world.

You assume that they are in it for the visibility primarily. But consider that so many celebrities become who they are because they happen to be so gifted in something, so willing to work hard for it, and visibility comes as a result of this, not a primary goal. Like if you look at classical pianists, you get a sense that even if they were locked up in a room, they'd still play because there is an inner urge to play. Do you think David Beckham would want to keep playing if there was no one to watch him? Would Michelle Kwan keep skating in an empty rink? Maybe not but maybe they like the game so much that they would. Like do you think Paul McCartney became a global superstar because he was after the fame or because his music was so damn good? (and by all accounts he is normal ish).

I think it's hard for them to stay normal even if they start out this way because the fabric of their lives becomes organically ....abnormal, or at least far removed from the usual.

First, the constant attention.
Second, never having to wait for anything, and resulting lack of tolerance for everyday annoyances.
Third, they can really only be friends with their own, or own-adjacent. They are probably only really surrounded by other entertainers and people who serve that industry.

Anonymous wrote:Julia Louis-Dreyfus

She's the first one I thought of too. I am especially impressed with her after listening to her wonderful podcast Wiser Than Me.

Steve Carell is fantastic. I am the Chris Evans poster above - guess where I grew up? My cousin actually dated his niece for a long time. They are just normal average folk.

Dave Grohl seems like a dude you'd want at your cookout.

Anonymous wrote:Doubtful. The kind of person who pursues that sort of constant visibility and fame isn’t well adjusted with good values. I’m not sure why that isn’t obvious. It’s like running for president—the kind of person who thinks they should rule over everyone else isn’t well adjusted with good values. The megalomaniacs, narcissists, borderline personalities, and pathologically avaricious among us do better in the limelight. You don’t want those people hanging around the office and they typically cause chaos in normal settings. The well regulated, securely attached, high values people of the world do better in private and mundane pursuits. Both types of people have their place in the world.

And, given the U.S. infatuation with fame, a celebrity may quickly coddled, privileged and people hang on their word. I suspect it came make it difficult to stay grounded and normal when you become accustomed to everyone listening to you speak and told yes a lot.

Anonymous wrote:Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Agreed, which is amazing considering not only her acting celebrity but coming from wealth.

I'll add Paul Rudd.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Anonymous wrote:My friend met Mark Ruffalo recently and he said he was super nice. It was a random interaction and my friend started to kind of back off because he didn't want to bother him but MR was down to keep the convo going and was very friendly.

He seems like a nice guy without crazy issues.

He makes Ilhan Omar look like Rush Limbaugh.

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Cary Elwes has been married to his wife for around 20 years. Seems stable!

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Anonymous wrote:Mark Wahlberg.

You’re not serious about life. Is google disabled on your computer?

In fact, it is. Do tell.

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Anonymous wrote:Freddie prinze jr and Sarah Michelle gellar seem to have sustained a happy marriage and family.

Steve carell strikes me as another.

Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig.

I met Steve Carell before he was famous, and he was very nice. I've heard some people have found him standoffish, but I think he might be shy.

The problem with finding "genuinely normal, well-adjusted" people is who is doing the judging of what is normal and well-adjusted? Like in this example, some rando can say a person is standoffish, but the celebrity may have been shy, or having a bad day, or was in "civilian mode" while approached and not ready for a random interaction. Usually those details are left out by the person saying a celebrity was standoffish.

Jeff Daniels still lives in the small town where he grew up, not far from Ann Arbor.

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Anonymous wrote:Jennifer Garner, other than her ex husband drama.

Lol, no. But it's a testament to her and her publicity team that you think this.

please do go on

There is no way that Jennifer Garner is not weird in the way most very famous people are weird. It's not a personal insult to her. She does a good job of working her natural charm and "folksy" manner to seem down to earth, but I guarantee if she showed up in your office tomorrow, or you saw her in the grocery store, she would seem strange to you. She has lived an extremely not normal life, including being married to Affleck and going through a super public and terrible divorce, so it's unlikely she is "normal" in the way OP means.

But yes, it's impressive that she can still convince people that she's the lady next door. She is very good in that role. But it's a role.

There is one poster on here who has some super weird hatred of JG but it's all just stuff made up in her head. There are several people who over the years have posted that they actually know her IRL and she's a nice, normal person.

This. For sure.

I've only posted once about JG on DCUM in my life. I think the opposite is true - there is some sock puppeting going on about the love for her. Her and her publicist have worked magic.