Fifteen Years Later: 17 Celebrities Remember 9/11

I hope they keep praying for our troops over there and just keep carrying on.

“I left a meeting right after they hit the World Trade Center. I went to my apartment, which looks south, and I watched it out my window. I could see the line of fire across the North Tower. I had my binoculars and a video camera--though I didn't want to video it. I saw a few people jump. Then I saw the South Tower go. It was so unreal, I had to confirm it by immediately looking at the television screen. CNN was on. That was the only way to make it real. Like my son said: "It was like watching the moon fall".”

— Robert DeNiro, Here's What Celebrities Were Doing When They Heard About 9/11

Tagged: America, USA, Pride

“As a New Yorker, it's very intense. I've never really spoken about this before but I was in New York on September 11 and I watched the Towers fall with all my girlfriends from the roof of our school. The whole city was covered in ashes.”

— Lady GaGa, Here's What Celebrities Were Doing When They Heard About 9/11

Tagged: USA, New York, America, Pride

“For me, the normal process when you lose loved ones is you take time to grieve and take time away from some of the things you do on a daily basis and you pay tribute to those people that lost their lives. To me, that meant not playing football that week.”

— Vinny Testaverde, Here's What Celebrities Were Doing When They Heard About 9/11

Tagged: USA, New York, Pride

“It took everything that I knew — not just as a journalist — but as a husband, and a father, and citizen to get through that day.”

— Tom Brokaw, Here's What Celebrities Were Doing When They Heard About 9/11

Tagged: USA, New York, Pride, Freedom

“I was on my way back to England, and we were at JFK on the tarmac, and the pilot just suddenly said, 'We can't take off. We're going to have to go back to base.' And out of the window on the right‑hand side of the airplane, you could see the twin towers. You could see one plume of smoke, and then you could see two shortly thereafter.”

— Pauly McCartney, Here's What Celebrities Were Doing When They Heard About 9/11

Tagged: Freedom, USA, America

“I lived in lower Manhattan at the time. So I just remember walking out of my apartment and seeing it and then going back in and watching CNN 'cause I was so hungry for information, trying to figure out what’s going on.”

— Matt Damon, Here's What Celebrities Were Doing When They Heard About 9/11

Tagged: USA, New York, Freedom

“Every time that day kind of comes about, I always think about the fact that I was in the 4th grade and what happened and all those feelings that we had and how everybody was distraught. I just feel like every time that comes around, I hope people acknowledge it and I hope that they just keep praying for our troops over there and just keep carrying on.”

— Selena Gomez, Here's What Celebrities Were Doing When They Heard About 9/11

Tagged: Freedom, USA

“It was the most terrifying, the most heartbreaking day. I was on a plane the evening before it happened, September 10. I was in Los Angeles, and all I wanted was to get back to my home — New York.”

— Al Pacino, Here's What Celebrities Were Doing When They Heard About 9/11

Tagged: Freedom, USA, New York

“My overwhelming reaction to 9/11 - I was at home in Los Angeles getting my two children, then ten and 12, ready for school - is inextricably bound up not with what happened on 9/11, but with what happened the next day ... Lines formed at blood banks, billions of dollars were donated to charities and volunteers had to be turned away from Ground Zero. The superficial media obsessions that had dominated our airwaves before that day ... gave way to serious discussions about how to repair our country, physically and spiritually.”

— Arianna Huffington, Here's What Celebrities Were Doing When They Heard About 9/11

Tagged: Never Forget, America, Freedom

“I remember exactly where I was the minute I turned the tv on. Will never forget this day, and I think it’s important to not forget. Not forget the innocent people that lost their lives, not forget the brave NYC 1st responders, and not to forget terrorists that did this. Thank you to our military that fight to keep us safe, and I hope nothing like this ever happens again.”

— Carey Hart, Celebrities Pay Tribute On 9/11 -- See Stars September 11th Anniversary Tweets

Tagged: Freedom, USA

“Every time I come to New York, I remember how powerful the spirit of this city is. Especially today. NYC, I love you.”

— Ellen Degeneres, Celebrities Pay Tribute On 9/11 -- See Stars September 11th Anniversary Tweets

Tagged: Freedom, USA, New York

“This day always feels unlike any other…. Because we will never forget. We all remember where we were on that horrific day that changed all of our lives forever. Today we remember those that lost their lives.”

— Kyle Richards, Celebrities Pay Tribute On 9/11 -- See Stars September 11th Anniversary Tweets

Tagged: Freedom, USA

“I may be in LA but I will always be a New Yorker. Today my heart bleeds with memories and sorrow for anyone affected by that tragic attack.. 14 years. I cant believe that much time has passed. I can still smell and feel the ash residing for months in the east village.”

— Sarah Hyland, Celebrities Pay Tribute On 9/11 -- See Stars September 11th Anniversary Tweets

Tagged: Freedom, USA

“It was a feeling like I’ve never felt before,’ he remembers. ‘I couldn’t really hear anything, but this rumble was unusual. Later I would realize it was the impact of the first plane.’ ‘When I got out a few minutes later I could see that where Windows on the World was there was a fire. The extent of it was hard to tell, but I immediately began to take stock of who was up there working.’ He was heading toward the fire exits to see if he could help when he saw the second plane hit. ‘I saw it happen,’ he says, incredulously. ‘It was really incredibly shocking, a moment I’ll never forget. I wasn’t watching TV, I was on the street. I was there.”

— Michael Lomonaco, 10 Famous People Who Avoided Death on 9/11 - Listverse

Tagged: Freedom, USA, New York

“I felt that my life had been saved for some specific reason.’ ‘I have yet to figure that out, but I do a lot of charity work now, which I was doing before, but I do a lot more.”

— Patti Austin, 10 Famous People Who Avoided Death on 9/11 - Listverse

Tagged: Freedom, USA

“At the last minute they changed their plans and decided to charter a plane to Toronto, Canada, for a film festival. From Toronto, they flew on to Los Angeles. This near brush with death still haunts his dreams. Wahlberg recalled what might have been had he and his buddies been on that flight: ‘We certainly would have tried to do something to fight. I’ve had probably over 50 dreams about it.'”

— Mark Wahlberg, 10 Famous People Who Avoided Death on 9/11 - Listverse

Tagged: Freedom, USA

“I was booked on that flight and I was drinking the night before and hung over and I missed the plane by about 10 minutes. It was a very close call for me.’ He also jokingly stated, ‘alcohol is our friend. I think that’s the moral of that story.’ He also said that he thanked God that his travel agent had screwed up the departure time or he would have been on board and he wouldn’t have known what to do when the terrorists took over the plane.”

— Seth MacFarlane, 10 Famous People Who Avoided Death on 9/11 - Listverse

Tagged: Freedom, USA