10:56 am - 03/14/2013
While some argue that celebrities are put on a pedestal, many stars have gone above and beyond to earn their accolades—and we're not just talking about doing their jobs well (although that's great, too!) In honor of Good Samaritan Day 2013, we want to take a look back at all of the celebs who have sprung into action during times of need.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Playing a heroine on- and offscreen, the Hunger Games star comforted a woman who had passed out on her lawn until paramedics arrived.
WILL FERRELL
see the full list of celebrity acts of kindness @ the source
do you have any Good Samaritan stories, ONTD?
Celebrity Good Samaritans
While some argue that celebrities are put on a pedestal, many stars have gone above and beyond to earn their accolades—and we're not just talking about doing their jobs well (although that's great, too!) In honor of Good Samaritan Day 2013, we want to take a look back at all of the celebs who have sprung into action during times of need.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Playing a heroine on- and offscreen, the Hunger Games star comforted a woman who had passed out on her lawn until paramedics arrived.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
This superhero has many powers and most certainly isn't afraid to use them. The actor reportedly rescued a little girl from a coyote at a Los Angeles park and resuscitated a 50-year-old woman
DEMI MOORE
Oh, the power of words. After one of the actress' Twitter followers posted suicidal thoughts, Demi cautiously and sweetly replied. Her response gave police enough information to locate and help the distressed girl.
BRAD PITT
Man overboard! While in Venice promoting Burn After Reading, Brad Pitt pulled a fan out of the water after he had tripped and fallen in. Although shocked and scared, the boy left happy and unharmed with an autograph.
WILL FERRELL
Talk about a slippery slope! While filming an episode of Man vs. Wild, the funnyman saved adventurer Bear Grylls' life after he fell off an ice cliff near the Arctic Circle.
see the full list of celebrity acts of kindness @ the source
do you have any Good Samaritan stories, ONTD?
we're only allowed to post 5 items from lists like this, so i just used the first five there were
wasn't that show staged?
On a serious note I usually hold doors for elders or offer my seat on the bus.My kindness is limited.
"When you first moved to L.A., Keanu Reeves helped you when your car broke down. Have you run into him since?
No, I haven’t, but I still go to all of his movies on opening weekend."
Edited at 2013-03-14 03:26 pm (UTC)
Seriously, what will he do next? Mission: Impossible's leading man once paid a stranger's $7,000 hospital bill after witnessing the hit-and-run that left her injured. Additionally, the actor saved two young boys from being crushed against a fence by a mob of fans at one of his movie premieres. That's still not all: While yachting, Tom saved a group stranded aboard a burning boat.
THEY WERE PROBABLY SCIENTOLOGISTS AND THE WHOLE THING WAS STAGED.
Then when i was in high school another coyote came into our yard and my dad shot him. The coyote seemed dead but when my dad went to pick it up it bit his hand.
So yeah..thats my run in with coyotes. Ha
also when I was 5 and a biker crashed his head through the back window of our parked car I went inside and got him a towel for his neck wound
I do little things like give up my sear on the bus or help little old ladies off the bus. I tied a lady's shoe once when she asked (that was weird but I was like whatever.) Never really been in a situation where more was needed or if it was there was already plenty of help and I would have been in the way.
My dad once signalled a truck driver that his haul of hay was on fire and then helped put it out/save the guy's truck back when he was driving from San Diego to Cleveland back in the like 70s.
My mom is a NP so she's stopped to help people in distress like old people at church and once during a movie when some guy had a seizure.
I usually do little things too, like if someone breaks down I help them push their car, or give them a ride to get gas. My husband and I helped get a woman out of her car when she flipped it a few months ago.
I watched an older woman attempt to put gas in her car last week and she just couldn't figure it out, so I took her money in and paid and pumped her gas, then she told me her husband had just passed away and he had always done it for her. I had to hold back tears!
I guess that's why people do it. Kind of like an anonymous act of kindness.
I was having a reallyyyy bad day and I guess I looked really sad. The guy in front of me bought my order (a venti order too lol and a protein pack)- I had my music in and I had no idea what was going in. I thanked him afterwords and he just said that "I just looked really sad and needed cheering up". It made my entire day.
It irks me, though, when the person behind me pulls up in a Range Rover.
Secondly, it may not seem like a huge gesture to you but it really is amazing. Idk, there's something about small things strangers do for one another that can just transform people's day and start a whole chain of little good deeds :)
/cool story
The rapper really is "Ready for Whatever." While working with the Atlanta police department, he managed to talk a severely depressed man out of jumping off the ledge of a 22-story building.
omg
i also once helped a little girl down who was stuck at the top of the playground and was scared to go down the fireman pole thing
......in hindsight this sounds like i'm creepy but i was just trying to be nice.
which is partially why i do stuff like that. it's no fun to play on a playground by yourself, especially if you don't know how to swing and stuff
And also, I had no idea Will Ferrel was in Man vs. Wild.
i have a soft spot for them lol