Ryan Reynolds, Serena Williams and Selena Gomez – they all got very real in their HONY chats

Celebrities Snapped By Humans Of New York At The Met Gala
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Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams

“She has the biggest heart. Everyone sees her success as an athlete, but all of that is layered on the size of her heart. She gives 100% of herself to everything she does: as a friend, as a lover, and soon, as a mother.”

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Selena Gomez 

“I feel like I’m just starting, but I think I’d be fine if it all went away. I get that from my mother. From the moment I started singing, she always reminded me that all of this was a privilege, and could be taken at any moment. So singing is not how I define myself. I try to keep my identity rooted in my friendships and my faith.”

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Hugh Dancy and Claire Danes

“Having a child was the best thing that ever happened to us. But it is constant company with terrible conversation.”

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Stephen Colbert and Evelyn McGee-Colbert

“He’s so sexy. And he taught me the importance of being silly.”

“Being silly is so important. Silly is the opposite of grief. It’s throwing yourself into a moment without care. You can’t always maintain your status as a dignified person — it gives you blinders. When you always expect the world to fulfill your expectations, it wears you down. It closes you off.”

“So sexy.”

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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively 

“She always responds with empathy. She meets anger with empathy. She meets hate with empathy. She’ll take the time to imagine what happened to a person when they were five or six years old. And she’s made me a more empathetic person. I had a very fractured relationship with my father. Before he died, she made me remember things I didn’t want to remember. She made me remember the good times.”

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