[IMG:L]Every Monday, we run down the week’s best, craziest and most talked-about quotes from celebs. (Click here for last week’s celeb quotes!)
“A lot of people loved Paula, and I don’t want to be the person that took Paula’s job away from her. Which I wasn’t. I’m not going to be able to please everyone. I gave up trying to do that a long time ago.”
—Ellen DeGeneres, on replacing Paula Abdul on American Idol[PAGEBREAK]
“I think that’s why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, ‘I’m chasing my kids, I’ve moved my parents in with me, I’m coping with food spills — that looks like me in real life’. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.”
—Sharon Stone, on Meryl Streep[PAGEBREAK]
“The bigger they are, the more they should be on red alert. (Paul) McCartney and Bono — they’re in trouble. They rule the world. Anyone richer, more talented, younger, thinner, or more handsome than me is my natural enemy.”
–Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais, on what to expect at Sunday’s star-studded ceremony[PAGEBREAK]
“They offered me the Brad Pitt part, but I was like, ‘This is so dark and evil.’ Then, when I saw the movie, I was like, ‘Oh, shoot.'”
—Denzel Washington regrets turning down 1995 thriller Seven[PAGEBREAK]
“I didn’t really know how to handle it. I didn’t want it to turn into this Girls Gone Wild song. I had been through the experience — many times — (but) didn’t want to get specific. I didn’t want guys to be w**king off. For me, it was a song about the magic and mystery of a woman that makes every man — and some women — get on their knees.”
–Katy Perry, on her hit song “I Kissed a Girl”[PAGEBREAK]
“I’m not prudish about nudity. I think it’s beautiful in films, and sex is such a big part of life. My issue is that I feel it takes something away from what you’re doing when the focus is put on the wrong thing. My picture ended up on porn sites, and that’s the dilemma.”
—Natalie Portman has vowed to never go nude again for a film following her much talked-about scene in 2007’s Hotel Chevalier[PAGEBREAK]
“I’m sure Schwarzenegger, because he’s been so unsuccessful, has pretty much ruined running for office for everybody in my business for the time being.”
—Alec Baldwin[PAGEBREAK]
“We’d been sitting there, celebrating this whole time and having little splashes, and I hadn’t eaten … The thing is, me and Lee hadn’t seen each other in a while. I love Lee, but he’s a bad influence!”
—Mariah Carey blames her Precious director Lee Daniels for her slurred acceptance speech at the Palm Springs Film Festival[PAGEBREAK]
“Even if it’s not a good script, I’d do it! When you have an experience like this with people you get along with, it’s a rarity. So if someone says, ‘Do you want to spend three months doing it again?’ In a heartbeat!”
—Bradley Cooper, on a sequel to The Hangover[PAGEBREAK]
“People always ask me, ‘You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?’ It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear make-up that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
—Precious star Gabourey Sidibe
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