Hollywood's Most Arrogant Celebrities

"I'm really f***ing good at my job and people who are interesting and good know that; and that's all that matters." So said Gwyneth Paltrow in 2004, thus earning side-eye from basically the whole world (per The Irish Independent). The "Shakespeare in Love" actor is notorious for spouting out hysterically haughty quotes, including such greatest hits as: "Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I'm opening a supermarket for him."

Paltrow has gone on the record to say she'd "rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a can." She also once grandly proclaimed, "I am who I am; I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year." According to Radar Online, these ostentatious outbursts are the reason she's universally "despised in Hollywood." In fact, her excessive ego-tripping earned her top honors in a 2013 "Most Hated Celebrity" list published in Star magazine. Asked why she thought she'd won this dubious distinction, Paltrow told BBC World News (via Access Hollywood), "There's a perception that ... that I was sort of raised with a silver spoon in my mouth."

Paltrow didn't do herself any favors in 2014 by suggesting that Hollywood actor moms have it harder than most working moms. She told E! News, "I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set."

If the Express can be believed, Faye Dunaway is an absolute frightmare behind the scenes. She reportedly regularly shrieks at service industry employees and thinks her plane tickets should be upgraded as a matter of principle. In fact, a flight attendant once claimed Dunaway was "screaming at everyone" and saying: "Don't you know who I am?" 

While filming "Chinatown," the actor once reportedly threw a cup of urine on director Roman Polanski because he wouldn't let her use the restroom. "I am a lady and you were completely insulting," Dunaway told journalist Xan Brooks, after he boldly asked her about the incident. According to an insider, Dunaway was so demonic on the set of "Mommie Dearest" that "no one dared approach her for fear of being verbally attacked and abused." Actor Rutanya Alda, who starred opposite Dunaway in the film, once quipped, "You can enter Faye Dunaway's dressing room but first throw a raw steak in there to distract her." (Rawr!) 

Sounds like Dunaway hasn't exactly mellowed over the years, either. During a Harper's Bazaar photo shoot at Chateau Marmont in 2016, she allegedly castigated photographers for their chosen camera angles, barking out orders like, "Everybody out of my eye line!" And in case these stories sound far-fetched, an out-there voicemail has surfaced that seems to offer a terrific example of what kind of ego the actor has. In two of the more subdued moments, Dunaway described her own performances as "brilliant" and "wonderful."

If actor Katherine Heigl can brag about anything, it's a knack for drumming up boatloads of bad press. A casually off-the-cuff Google-stalk draws up pages of articles dedicated solely to expressing hatred for her. Hollywood insiders have accused her of creating "difficult situations," and the story seems to check out. After working with the actor on "Grey's Anatomy," Shonda Rhimes now uses "Heigl" as shorthand for "troublesome talent." "There are no Heigls in this situation," she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2014 while fondly describing the cast of "Scandal." "I don't put up with bulls**t or nasty people. I don't have time for it." 

Heigl's bad reputation stems largely from her decision to decline a second Emmy nomination for "Grey's Anatomy" in 2008. She released a wince-inducing public statement that claimed she simply wasn't "given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination." Then, the haughtiness goes into overdrive: "In an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention." That's so Heigl. 

Much like Miles Teller, Page Six reported Heigl will occasionally disparage her own films, saying of "Knocked Up" that "it was hard for me to love the movie." In 2010, she acknowledged that she may have something of an "image problem," and said she needs to get "a little more settled in my own skin." 

In a 2011 Plum Miami feature, writer Jacquelynn D. Powers tailed Lindsay Lohan through the neon swirls of South Florida as she embarked on a manic weekend rampage (via Radar Online). One of the most telling scenes involved Lohan careening through town in a "chauffeured Lincoln Navigator," eventually coming across a parking cone as they arrived at the Fontainebleau hotel. The "Herbie: Fully Loaded" star reportedly rolled down the window and shouted to no one in particular, "Move that cone. I'm Lindsay Lohan." 

Powers tagged along as Lohan raged for hours at the nightclub LIV on Saturday night, and then kept the party alive through Sunday. "It was like watching the lights come on at a nightclub after-hours," Powers wrote. "Not pretty." Sadly, Powers never got to hunker down with Lilo to find out what makes her tick. "I never got my interview," she lamented, writing that she was "exhausted from the constant demands, drama, outbursts, cancellations and tsoris."

The year before, Lohan felt entitled enough to completely redefine the term "rehab." According to TMZ, a "chemical dependency technician" caught Lohan "trying to jump over the back wall" of the Betty Ford Clinic to get back to her room after a night of drinking. Her sense of self-importance apparently remains unscathed, though. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she once launched a "subscription-based lifestyle website" where fans could pay $2.99 to gain access to her "exclusive world." 

A certain "Ocean's Twelve" star is fed up. According to The Mirror, Catherine Zeta-Jones won't let you shame her for being filthy rich and distractingly beautiful. "One thing I'm not is humble anymore," she revealed in June 2018. "I'm sick of being humble. I really am." So should you ever gallop up to Zeta-Jones and scorn her for marrying Michael Douglas and starring in "The Mask of Zorro," she's simply not going to take it. "So sorry I'm rich, so sorry I'm married to a movie star, so sorry I'm not so bad looking."

As Page Six reported, Zeta-Jones regularly sings her own praises and brags about the prodigious opulence she's accrued over the years. In 2003, she boasted, "A million dollars isn't a lot of money for people like us." In fact, she's proud of the fact that she collects houses like so many collect Garbage Pail Kids. "Some people collect art or lots of money. We collect houses because if we have to look at something, we prefer the view." O...kay.

Still, life is not without its challenges for the star. In 2008, she revealed that having so many mansions lying around has led to many lost shoes. "When I have an outfit and I think it's going to look great with a certain pair of shoes, I remember they're in ... some place I'm not," she lamented. "So that's why I have to buy duplicates." Nice.

According to former "Beverly Hills, 90210" heartthrob Jason Priestley, his on-screen sister, Shannen Doherty, could be quite the shambling nightmare. In his artlessly titled 2014 memoir, "Jason Priestley: A Memoir," the actor claimed Doherty's arrogance was beyond the pale during a trip to New York (via E! News). She apparently had issues with the automobile that had picked her up and deposited her at the airport, snippily asking a Fox publicist: "Really? A town car? You send a town car to take me to the airport, not a limo?" 

Priestley claimed Doherty proceeded to complain "about the short notice and the food on board and the temperature in the cabin and everything else." According to her book, "Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde," (via E! News), co-star Jennie Garth got along with Doherty like "gasoline and a match." At one point, Garth was allegedly so fed up with Doherty's bad attitude that she lost her cool and yelled: "Come on, b***ch! We're talking this outside!" Fortunately, Priestley and Luke Perry were on hand to break up the fight before it turned physical.

And if the rumors are true, Doherty's self-entitlement might have ultimately gotten her kicked off the show. Producer and writer Larry Mollin told Entertainment Weekly that Doherty didn't ask permission before getting a haircut, so her brand-new 'do wound up destroying the continuity of the Season 4 finale. Allegedly, that's what inspired fed-up producers to finally give her the boot.

Disparaging your peers is a sure sign of arrogance — particularly if you're doing it in a Moveline profile, and your peers happen to be Madonna and Cameron Diaz. In a notorious 1998 interview, a motormouth Jennifer Lopez said of Madonna: "Do I think she's a great performer? Yeah. Do I think she's a great actress? No. Acting is what I do, so I'm harder on people when they say, 'Oh, I can do that — I can act.' I'm like, 'Hey, don't spit on my craft.'" Anyone who's ever caught a screening of "Gigli" knows that Lopez is a nuanced performer who appears skilled in the acting techniques of Stanislavski and Stella Adler.

Diaz doesn't fare much better than Madge. Lopez boldly went on the record to call her "a lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she would have done more with." But don't call Lopez a snob: Her ire isn't solely reserved for wealthy entertainers. She's also allegedly prickly with people who work in service positions.

In 2012, an emotionally wounded flight attendant contacted Star (via Radar Online) about his interaction with Lopez: "I just said, 'What can I get you to drink?' But Jennifer refused to even acknowledge me. She turned her head away and told her personal assistant, 'Please tell him I'd like a Diet Coke and lime.' She wouldn't even look at me. It was sad, she seems so sweet in her movies." 

Pop star Christina Aguilera reportedly got into a fight with Mickey Mouse in 2014. It's tempting to end our anecdote there, but we'll provide some context. According to TMZ, the singer was celebrating her 34th birthday at Disney California Adventure and wanted to have an impromptu photo session Mickey Mouse, however, he was going on break. Aguilera reportedly flew into a tizzy, calling the legendary Mouse an "a**hole" and even pulling the "Do you know who I am?" card.

Judging by various reports, Aguilera's penchant for divadom isn't confined to cartoon mice. According to Radar Online, she was "horrendous" to staff while filming Season 10 of "The Voice." "She showed up late and acted like she owned the shoot," a source told the tab. Aguilera allegedly insisted on "wearing her own wardrobe" and wouldn't take direction because she wanted the shoot "to center around her." Apparently, the other judges caved to her demands, collectively deciding: "Just let Christina have her way because it is much easier than arguing with her." 

For more evidence of her egotism at work, Aguilera's tour rider supposedly includes Flintstones chewable vitamins, soy cheese, Nesquik, and a police escort because "under no circumstances are the vehicles allowed to encounter any delays due to traffic." 

Ariana Grande reportedly loathes her fans. A source told the New York Daily News that she acted like a prima donna after visiting a New York radio station: "She did autographs and pics and was all smiles until she got into the elevator," the insider dished. "As soon as the doors shut she said, 'I hope they all f***ing die.'" Grande reportedly left a photo shoot in Australia because she was displeased with the photographers. Her entourage allegedly ordered the photogs to "shoot only from the left side of her face" and "don't use natural light." Grande's life coach allegedly quit because of her attitude.

We should also mention that Grande supposedly "has to be carried — literally carried like a baby — when she doesn't feel like walking. She says that she doesn't want her precious feet to hit the floor." That's according to a source for InTouch (via Jezebel). Though Grande's rep reportedly told Gossip Cop that story is "fake," the New York Daily News has photographic evidence.

No wonder Alexander DeLeon of rock band The Cab called her the "most stuck up, disrespectful person I've ever met in this industry." After all, the little lady once licked the goods at a donut shop without paying, while declaring, "I hate America." When surveillance footage from the bakery revealed her dirty deeds, Grande reasoned that she was simply frustrated by America's obesity epidemic.

Andrew O'Hehir described "Rush Hour" director Brett Ratner with unusual succinctness: A 2011 piece in Salon referred to Ratner as "an arrogant and insensitive creep." Multiple witnesses claimed the director stunned NYU students by implying that none of them had seen "Rush Hour 3" because they were too busy watching "some f*g sh*t." Similarly, Ratner was fired as producer for the 2012 Academy Awards after claiming rehearsals are "for f*gs." 

He later wrote an arrogant non-apology — in which he referred to himself as a storyteller: "It was a dumb way of expressing myself. Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body. But as a storyteller I should have been much more thoughtful about the power of language and my choice of words."

In "Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek," Olivia Munn described a sexual peccadillo with an unnamed Hollywood director thus: "A grown man in an oversized shirt holding his undersized manhood in hands glistening with shrimp fat." Ratner acknowledged on "Attack of the Show" that he was the mystery man, but he denied the shrimp (via HuffPost). According to Reuters, Ratner also told Howard Stern he was "probably the best in the world" at a particular sex act, regaling the shock jock with gross tales that are not suitable for work. In 2017, Ratner was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, prompting Warner Bros. to cut ties with this particular storyteller. 

Steven Seagal is an absolute legend — in his own mind, that is. On one occasion, the actor bragged about training CIA operatives in Japan while filming "Under Siege 2" and in another instance, he told an executive he read the most incredible script ever written: One that was penned by himself (per Vanity Fair). On the set, the megalomaniac was difficult to work with, according to actor John Leguizamo, who worked with him on "Executive Decision." He recalled Seagal declaring that he was in control of the whole set, causing Leguizamo to chortle. "I thought he was kidding," Leguizamo told Arsenio Hall, "and he Aikido-ed me against the brick wall and Pow! Knocked all the air out of me!"

Seagal also tried to pull rank when hosting "Saturday Night Live" in 1991, said "Better Call Saul" star Bob Odenkirk, a writer on the sketch comedy at the time. On Howard Stern, Odenkirk recalled Seagal wanting to alter a Hans and Franz bit where he'd beat up the bodybuilding duo and even created a sketch that turned into an eight-minute rumble involving Exxon executives. "At the very end, he turns to camera and says, 'This is what happens when you pollute the planet,'" Odenkirk said. "And the audience is mystified." 

Not surprisingly, Seagal is also close friends with another brutish egomaniac named Vladimir Putin and has been a Russian citizen since 2016. Fortunately, that means he's no longer America's problem.

It helps to be arrogant in the notoriously Darwinian rap industry, and Nicki Minaj has that turf covered nicely, seemingly fully versed in how to spill her opposition's hemoglobin. 

Her most pivotal target was '90s hip-hop queen Lil' Kim, former girlfriend of the late Biggie Smalls, whose poses Minaj appropriated onto her own artwork for her 2007 mixtape, "Playtime Is Over," kicking off a lengthy feud that ended when Lil' Kim threw in the towel in 2018 (per Metro). Minaj has also thrown extensive shade at Cardi B in a lengthy on-off series of altercations that culminated at a party held in 2018 during New York Fashion Week (per Glamour). And as a judge on "American Idol," she squared off against fellow panelist Mariah Carey, no stranger to vanity herself (per TMZ).

But if there's a weakness to Minaj, it's her uncontrollable tendency to fly off the handle after an award snub. In 2015, she bickered about losing an MTV VMA award, tweeting that she would have won if she were a different type of artist. Unfortunately, the tweet caught the attention of Taylor Swift, who thought the shot was meant for her, launching another Minaj fracas (per Vox). When she lost a best new artist Grammy in 2012, Minaj went ballistic on the award show, tweeting, in part, "They gave it to the white man Bon Iver," not realizing Bon Iver is actually a band.

As a musician who's received more than a million gold and platinum song certifications and the owner of a lucrative fashion operation, it's obvious Rihanna puts a lot of work into her products, which makes it an even bigger shame that she doesn't exert that effort into being more civil with her fans.

One example of that disregard took place in 2016 at a U.K. festival, when she angered fans by starting her show an hour late and allegedly lip-synced part of her set (per Metro), nuances that she repeated at a subsequent engagement in Belgium (per the Daily Mail). While the fake vocalizing can't officially be confirmed, her tardiness was most likely attributable to her being pampered extensively in her dressing room, made all the more opulent thanks to a tour rider that demanded six Archipelago Black candles, dark blue or black Icy Chiffon drapes, a large plush animal throw rug, a humidifier, and four square vases of white tulips (per Business Insider). And for fans who get too close, beware of her golden microphone, which she uses to swat them away.

Rihanna's also been known to show contempt for fans who feel inspired by her designs and share their wares online. One such admirer displaying work influenced by Rihanna's Fenty line received a frowny-face critique from the singer, compelling one follower to lament, "Why would you publicly try to humiliate one of your fans?? You succeeded and she's probably devastated ... happy??"