I'm With the Rand: Celebrity fans of the cult of selfishness. [View all]

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Angelina Jolie: "I just think [Ayn Rand] has a very interesting philosophy...You reevaluate your own life and what's important to you."

Brad Pitt: The Fountainhead "is so dense and complex, it would have to be a six-hour movie."

Christina Ricci: "My favorite book is The Fountainhead...I relate to it because of the idea that you're not a bad person if you don't love everyone."

Vince Vaughn: "The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life—The Fountainhead."

Rob Lowe: "Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a stupendous achievement and I just adore it."

Eva Mendes: Any potential boyfriend "has to be an Ayn Rand fan."

Mark Cuban: "I don't know how many times I have read [The Fountainhead], but it got to the point where I had to stop because I would get too fired up."

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.): Recently tweeted, "Still reading Atlas Shrugged, quite the read."
Hugh Heffner

Hugh Hefner: The Fountainhead "is a compelling tribute to man's quest for personal freedom."

Billie Jean King: "Like Dagny Taggart, I had to learn how to be selfish, although selfish has the wrong connotation. As I see it, being selfish is really doing your own thing."

Jerry Lewis: The Fountainhead is "a very profound book...Makes you think!"

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2009/07/im-rand


...what I don't know about Ayn Rand could fill a library. So why do I care enough to plug those holes in my knowledge? ...because every person I talk with who has read all her works, seems to talk about her with a passion bordering on religious devotion.

And one of those people is Angelina Jolie.

Regarding the long in development project "Atlas Shrugged," which has been in some form of creative flux for over 35 years, Jolie didn't hesitate to call it a "once in a lifetime" project. And this is coming from a woman who has won one Oscar...

"'Atlas Shrugged' is one of those, I think, once-in-a-lifetime films that you feel, 'If I only do a few more in my lifetime, that has to be one of them,'" she insisted.

Jolie has been confirmed to play the role of Dagny Taggart, the protagonist of the novel through whose eyes we see the battle between John Galt, striking leader of the intellectual upper class, and the "looters and the moochers..."

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/06/18/angelina-jolie-calls-atlas-shrugged-once-in-a-lifetime-film/


hubby was going to be in it too....