Quote, unquote: The things celebrities say 

Source: ReutersSandra Bullock

Whether smart or dumb, celebrities say some interesting things and have some interesting things said about them...

Jesse's "poor judgment"
"There is only one person to blame for this whole situation, and that is me. It's because of my poor judgment that I deserve everything bad that is coming my way" - Sandra Bullock's husband Jesse James, who allegedly had an affair while his wife was filming for her Oscar winning performance. 

Ugly Betty not a Hollywood bride fan
"I think women are a lot more complicated than obsessing over one day in their lives." - Ugly Betty star America Ferrera says she's not big on Hollywood portrayals of brides.

An Oscar and a Razzie
"They're going to sit side by side, as they should. You take the good with the not so good" - Sandra Bullock vows to display her best actress Oscar statuette next to her Golden Raspberry award.

Lara Bingle gets angry
"Women should not have to accept that sort of behaviour just because a boyfriend or partner wants to impress their friends. It is demeaning and disrespectful of us" - Lara Bingle isn't happy about the release of a nude photo of her . 

Falling on your face
"There's a very good possibility you can fall on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor" - Johnny Depp.

Meaty bunny
"I'm like the Energizer rabbit right now. I don't even need to be plugged in. I need to be unplugged" - American rock legend Meat Loaf. 

Sharon Osbourne rips into Dannii Minogue
"She wasn't so much a dim bulb as a bulb in a power cut" - Sharon Osbourne offers her opinion on her former X Factor colleague Dannii Minogue. 

Music industry a carcass
"The (music) industry is a corpse but there's lots of interesting things crawling out of it" - Peter Gabriel. 

Critics rip into Alice
"The girl's got all the warmth of a refrigerated trout, and a face you'd expect to see Blu-Tacked to the inside of a London phone box" - British critic Robbie Collin rips into Mia Waiskowska, who stars in Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland. 

Pleas for Kylie to knit
"I want her to learn to knit so she can make lots of clothes, but she's not keen on the idea" - Dannii Minogue, who is expecting a baby in July, is hoping big sister Kylie will help out.

A dirty secret
"War's dirty secret is that some men love it" - Director Kathryn Bigelow, whose  movie The Hurt Locker won best picture and best director at the BAFTA Awards. 

Tom Jones and his special souvenirs
"I sweat a lot so they were handing me these napkins to mop my brow ... and this woman thought she'd go a step further" - Tom Jones recalls the first time a female fan threw her underwear at him. 

Mardi Gras welcomes the Gaga
"Lady GaGa is a powerhouse figure in the world of performance art and a strong supporter of gay and lesbian community worldwide" - Sydney Mardi Gras chief executive Michael Rolik welcomes singer Lady GaGa with open arms.

Paul McCartney reminisces
"I have got so many memories there with the Beatles. It still is a great studio. So it would be lovely if somebody could get a thing together to save it" - Former Beatle Paul McCartney hopes the historic Abbey Road studios can be saved after reportedly being put up for sale .

Martin Scorsese gets all philosophical
"I like the recreation of aspects of lost worlds, lost times. We forget these other times and how much knowing what happened then can tell us about our present time. We need to know the past to live the present, create the future" - film director Martin Scorsese.

Wise words from Lady Gaga
"My message as a woman, to my fans, is always: love yourself, free yourself, be whoever you want to be" - Lady Gaga hands out some advice

British Vogue's editor describes Alexander McQueen
"He influenced a whole generation of designers. His brilliant imagination knew no bounds" - Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue, on the late designer Alexander McQueen . 

Ben Stiller gets serious
To be funny all the time is a hard thing" - Ben Stiller

John Mayer describes his ex, Jessica Simpson
"Sexual napalm".

Brangelina takes action
"The News of the World has failed to meet our clients' reasonable demands for a retraction of and apology for these false and intrusive allegations" - Lawyers for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announce they are suing over reports of the celebrity couple's split. 

Miranda Kerr lends her support to a shamed banker
"I am told there is a petition to save his job, and of course I would sign it" - Model Miranda Kerr lends her support to the banker who was caught on live TV looking at sexy pictures of her . 

Peter Andre breaks down on air
"Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that," Peter Andre responds to an interview question about the custody of his children with Katie Price.

Sandra's first Oscars nod
"It was the phone call that you always hear people saying, 'I was awoken by the ring of the phone' and that's exactly what happened with m." - Sandra Bullock on how she learned of her first Oscar nomination .

"Cat lady" saves music industry
"You may be the coolest people in the world. This year your industry was saved by a 48-year-old Scottish cat lady in sensible shoes" - Grammys host Stephen Colbert refers to Susan Boyle.

Doherty does it again
"Either this was sheer stupidity or a ploy to get more publicity" - Gloucester Magistrates' Court Judge Joti Boparai after Pete Doherty walked into court with heroin in his pockets . 

Indiana Jones' tombstone
"Honestly, I'd rather have the names of my kids on the tombstone" - Actor Harrison Ford's reply to a question about which of his films he would like engraved on his tombstone. 

World Cup wedding date
"We're trying to work out a date between the (football) World Cup and the end of the Formula 1 season. It's messing all my plans up. I was going to produce another album but I won't get any work done with both events going on" - Westlife star Bryan McFadden says he will marry Australian songstress Delta Goodrem this year. 

Everyone wants a piece of the prince
"He's the cool kid on the block that everybody wants to hang out with." - Jason Donovan is a fan of Prince William.

Surf music with a twist
"It just seemed very exciting that we loved this music from our childhood, the surf music, and decided to use all our energies to try to play surf music with a new twist." - Midnight Oil founding member Rob Hirst.

Golden Globes and loos
"The last time I came here 15 years ago I was on the loo and missed my whole category." - Golden Globe winner Toni Collette.

Courtney takes to Twitter
"im severely lonely without my best friend and no am not on drugs BTW." - Courtney Love takes to Twitter to vent about losing custody of her daughter Frances Bean.

Letting the cleavage do the talking
"I keep saying it's mainly my cleavage doing the work. I'm coasting along on that. And then having to crack onto Geoffrey Rush as a priest, well who could say no?" - Magda Szubanski talks about working on her new film, Bran Nue Dae. 

Simon Cowell leaves American Idol
"Just get somebody who knows what they're talking about," Simon Cowell tells reporters what he wants in his American Idol replacement.

Mariah admits her flaws
 "Sorry, sometimes I get a little ... you know, difficult" - Mariah Carey during a bizarre and rambling acceptance speech at an awards night.

Bono takes on online file swapping
"The people it hurts are the creators - in this case, the young, fledgling songwriters who can't live off ticket and T-shirt sales like the least sympathetic among us" - Mega-rich rock star Bono calls for tougher laws against online file swapping. 

A Jonas breaks away
"I think each one of us has individual dreams and ambitions" - Nick Jonas, who has broken away from his brothers Kevin and Joe with a new solo album. 

How many more?
"Hollywood loses another bright soul ... how many more? A decade of decadence and devastation. Time to wake up" - Perez Hilton on the death of Brittany Murphy. 

Lovely to look at...
"Keira Knightley may be one of the 21st century's revered object but on stage she proves little better than adequate" - The Daily Mail on Keira Knightley's London stage debut in The Misanthrope.

Signing off as Doctor Who
"Wherever you go, people know you for being in Doctor Who and then you go into a supermarket and there's your face on a cake and there's your face on a T-shirt and a jigsaw and a little plastic figure" - David Tennant, who is handing over his keys to the Tardis after playing Dr Who for four years.

Twilight not life-changing for all
"I get a couple more girls coming up to me in airports to ask me for autographs, but other than that, my day-to-day life is exactly the same" - Anna Kendrick, who plays Bella's friend Jessica in New Moon, says being in the Twilight blockbuster has not changed her life. 

Robert Downey Jr is dissatisfied
"My neutral gear is dissatisfaction. In that way I can really relate to Holmes, because he rebels at stagnation" - Robert Downey Jr, who plays the great Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes in his latest film. 

Johnny Depp doesn't want your award
"Whenever anybody says they are going to give me some kind of award, I'm always a little stupefied by the notion. The first thing I say is 'why?'" - Heartthrob Johnny Depp.

The dark side of Thomas the Tank Engine?
"It represents a conservative political ideology that punishes individual initiative, opposes critique and change, and relegates females to supportive roles" - A researcher blows the whistle on the dark side of Thomas the Tank Engine.

Sarandon's words of advice
"Don't smoke as I do in the movie. Probably don't drink too much. Be happy" - Susan Sarandon's words of advice to fans of her new movie, The Lovely Bones .

A little bit of Ricky
"I'm best in small doses" - Comedian Ricky Gervais.

Who's the boss?
"I'm the president, but he's the Boss" - Barack Obama to rocker Bruce Springsteen.

The Susan Boyle Effect
"Susan Boyle's debut was historic and we expect The Susan Boyle Effect to be felt in the charts for a long time to come yet" - Martin Talbot, managing director of the Official UK Charts Company, after the star stayed at the top of the British album charts for a second week.

Empowered by wallpaper
"My mum helped me wallpaper it myself. It was very empowering" - Cindy Crawford finds empowerment in wallpapering her bedroom room.

Kevin Rudd the nerd
"The best way to describe me is a complete classical nerd" - How Kevin Rudd describes himself in an interview with the Australian edition of Rolling Stone.

Susan Boyle makes history
"I accept now that my life will never be the same. And I don't want it to end" - Scottish songstress Susan Boyle, whose album has hit the top of the British charts .

Sunny outlook for Luke
"In the words of George Harrison: Here comes the sun" - Empire of the Sun frontman Luke Steele, accepting the top Aria honour for album of the year . 

Peter Jackson's ghost
"I woke up one morning and there was a figure in the room, she was very scary, she had a screaming face, very accusatory, she was a lady about 50 years old. It was terrifying actually, a very scary image and she was at the end of the bed and she glided across the room and disappeared into the wall. I sat in bed and thought, have I really seen that?" Peter Jackson recalls his own ghost experience at the premiere of The Lovely Bones .

Robert Pattinson talks about Twilight fans
"There was a woman who came up to me the other day who must've been in her 90s. They say exactly the same things as 12-year-old girls. That's kind of bizarre."

Skinny Kate
"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" - Model Kate Moss comes under fire for quoting pro-ano slogans .

Depp's still hot
"At 46, the father of two still reigns as Hollywood's most irresistible iconoclast; as one-of-a-kind as his beloved 15-year-old boots and as smouldering as his favourite Cuban cigars" - People Magazine, which has voted Johnny Depp the sexiest man alive.

Get ready for Scream 4
"I'm probably miserable, and then I'm sure a lot of murdering will happen" - Courtney Cox, who will reprise her role as reporter Gale Weathers in Scream 4.

Rove bids farewell
"For the last time, thank you very much for allowing me into your home - not in a creepy way, I haven't been sneaking in and perving on you when you're asleep - but through the power of television, I say thank you very much" - Rove McManus, who is quitting his popular TV show after 10 years. 

Steve Tyler attempts to set the record straight
"I am not leaving Aerosmith." Steve Tyler makes the announcement at a New York City venue after rumours he was leaving the band.

Happy birthday Sesame Street 
"Our original goal was simple: To create a successful television programme that would make a difference in the lives of children" - Joan Ganz, co-founder of Sesame Street, which turned 40 this week.