Published: 4:43PM Wednesday April 15, 2009
Source: AAP
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.
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