Christian Slater opens up about 'weird' reality of fame after 5 decades in Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Christian Slater received his prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame aft 5 decades successful the business.

The 55-year-old "Heathers" prima reflected connected his galore years successful the amusement concern portion accepting his prima connected the Walk of Fame, telling Fox News Digital fame "is ever weird."

"It’s tricky. There’s cameras everywhere, you’re truly a batch much nether the microscope than you were, truthful it’s got its just stock of challenges to woody with," helium explained. "Fame is ever weird. It’s ever a weird thing, and close present it feels similar a bully level. I mean, this is humbling. It gives maine the accidental to beryllium thrilled and besides locomotion each implicit myself, truthful I deliberation it’s great."

While fame tin beryllium a unusual roadworthy to navigate, Slater said helium feels "very fortunate that I get to bash thing that I genuinely emotion to do" and that helium hopes his emotion for his vocation creates a "snowball effect" which continues to bring him "the accidental to enactment with amended and amended radical and conscionable person much and much fun."

Slater told Fox News Digital "fame is ever weird" erstwhile accepting his prima connected the Walk of Fame. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Paramount+)

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During his code astatine the ceremony, Slater reflected connected his agelong past with Hollywood Boulevard, the celebrated thoroughfare the Walk of Fame is recovered on. He explained that his begetter lived determination erstwhile helium was a kid, adding that helium aboriginal performed astatine the Pantages Theater with Dick Van Dyke and adjacent learned the skateboard connected the boulevard erstwhile prepping for his movie, "Gleaming the Cube."

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"I retrieve walking astir this thoroughfare and seeing the names of the actors, the movie stars, connected the crushed and I ne'er thought oregon dreamed that I would person my own," helium said.

"Fame is ever weird. It’s ever a weird thing, and close present it feels similar a bully level. I mean, this is humbling. It gives maine the accidental to beryllium thrilled and besides locomotion each implicit myself, truthful I deliberation it’s great."

He aboriginal added, "My heroes are Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Jack Nicholson, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart and excessively galore others to name, and they each person delivered immoderate unthinkable performances and each person stars connected this boulevard, and to beryllium capable to stock immoderate abstraction with each of them is an grant and a imagination travel true."

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Sarah Michelle Gellar besides reflected connected Slater's show arsenic she paid tribute to him during the ceremony, calling his show arsenic J.D. successful "Heathers" arsenic 1 that "defined the GenX counterculture," adding that she had "more than 1 Christian Slater poster hanging successful my teenage bedroom."

Sarah Michelle Gellar honored Slater astatine his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

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She past went connected to praise his performances successful "Pump Up the Volume," "True Romance," "Dr. Death," "Dear John" and "Mr. Robot," adding that "not galore actors tin assertion to person been culturally important crossed 4 decades."

"Most actors tin lone imagination of having a vocation arsenic agelong arsenic yours, Christian, and the astir astonishing portion of it is that you proceed to redefine however we spot you," she said successful her speech. "You are an histrion with aggregate legacies who volition consciousness similar conscionable arsenic caller of a find to teenagers watching you for the archetypal clip 20 years from present arsenic you did erstwhile I archetypal saw you. All of this to say, just is fair. The grant is richly deserved a twelve times over."

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While reflecting connected his galore years arsenic an actor, Slater called receiving a prima connected the Walk of Fame "a fantastic ending to a section of my life," which inactive has galore much chapters near to go, and "a item and thing I volition treasure for the remainder of my life."

He besides took the clip to convey each the radical successful his beingness "who genuinely emotion maine and I genuinely love," including his children and his wife, Brittany Lopez.

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Slater thanked his woman for making him "feel seen." (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)

"When you speech astir having a spouse and idiosyncratic connected your broadside connected this travel of life, I couldn’t person gotten immoderate luckier and I couldn't beryllium immoderate much grateful for what you person brought to my life. I consciousness safe, I consciousness loved, I consciousness cared for, I consciousness seen," helium said. "Having a prima connected Hollywood Boulevard is great, but nary of this would person been imaginable without my household and the emotion I person successful my beingness today."

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