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“Probably Patrick Swayze. My dream come true.”
— Harvard’s Hasty Pudding award winner Scarlett Johansson (pictured here, at the award ceremony), on which famous guy she’d most likely be linked with romantically
“Any girl who looks like that and thinks she’s fat — I’ve got a chance with her.”
— Howard Stern, on his surprise Valentine’s Day proposal to model girlfriend Beth Ostrosky — after first ordering her to strip, on his Sirius Satellite Radio show
“If you think it is just about a major make-out session, you will be disappointed.”
— Courteney Cox, on the chaste on-screen lip lock she shares with BFF Jennifer Aniston in an upcoming episode of Dirt
“I was 19, and I spoke very little English. The only thing I knew how to say was, ‘I want to make a movie with Johnny Depp!'”
— Penélope Cruz, on memories of her first Oscar night in 1994, to Life magazine
“I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon — but I want to stay alive.”
— Madonna, on Sirius Satellite Radio
“Oh, what the f— do you care!”
— David Letterman, swearing on his own late-night talk show to tease Factory Girl star Sienna Miller about her potty-mouthed interviews on American television
“That’s brilliant … I can’t believe you just said the ‘F’ word.”
— Sienna Miller
“I was just told that I should be grateful that he still talks to me, you know how many women throw themselves at him. And I just pretty much felt like a piece of crap.”
— Kim Mathers, on how being twice-married to Eminem nearly drove her to suicide, on the Dr. Keith Ablow show
“Last year it was Tom Cruise. I could be the next Kathie Lee Gifford.”
— Jim Carrey, on how in Hollywood you can quickly go from A-list star to the butt of the joke, to Time
“I’ve been on a diet my whole life.”
— Liv Tyler, on how she spent years worrying about her weight until she became a mom two years ago, to Glamour
“These are photos I can show my kids some day, so I can say, ‘See, momma was beautiful. Look how good I looked!'”
— Beyoncé, on her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover shoot