Celebrity Smart-Ass Quotes

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Meanwhile, Spears’ ex, Kevin Federline, still has at least one fan: camp king John Waters. “You don’t see him out there getting out of limousines and flashing his shaved crotch,” the director of “Hairspray” told the Canadian Press. “He’s been the gentleman since they split up.” Waters is such a Federline fan that he made his assistant buy the rapper’s CD for him. “She was so mad, she almost quit,” Waters said. “She kept saying: ‘I’m not doing it. Please don’t make me buy it.’ But she finally did. I consider it a prized possession; I haven’t even taken it out of the wrapper.”

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Bettie Page is a tough critic

(MSNBC.COM)

 

Bettie Page says that Gretchen Mol — the actress who played her in the 2005 movie “The Notorious Bettie Page” was “real pretty” but her figure wasn’t so hot.

 

“I thought she was real pretty, with those big eyes,” the reclusive 1950s pin-up tells the upcoming issue of Playboy magazine. “She was good-looking, but the way she would screw up her face and all, I never did that. I didn’t think her figure was too good. She was too tall, but she had a pretty face.”

 

Page also shared her theory that Marilyn Monroe was murdered: “I don’t think she killed herself at all,” Page told the mag. “I think it was some of the henchmen of old Kennedy.”

 

 

I believe Soho said those same words.

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"A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard" - Aaron Eckhart to Fade In magazine .

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Bettie Page is a tough critic

(MSNBC.COM)

 

Bettie Page says that Gretchen Mol — the actress who played her in the 2005 movie “The Notorious Bettie Page” was “real pretty” but her figure wasn’t so hot.

 

“I thought she was real pretty, with those big eyes,” the reclusive 1950s pin-up tells the upcoming issue of Playboy magazine. “She was good-looking, but the way she would screw up her face and all, I never did that. I didn’t think her figure was too good. She was too tall, but she had a pretty face.”

 

Page also shared her theory that Marilyn Monroe was murdered: “I don’t think she killed herself at all,” Page told the mag. “I think it was some of the henchmen of old Kennedy.”

 

 

I believe Soho said those same words.

LOL!! That is funny and I totally do agree! hee.

Now Bettie Page...she knows from good figures!

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January 28, 2007 -- "I'M tired of all these women I meet asking me, 'Why do French women look so great?' I tell them, 'Go to a tailor. They do' " - Michael Kors to the Palm Beach Daily News . . .

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Always Time

 

SHIRLEY MacLaine raised an eyebrow at p.r. exec Richard Laermer as he sipped a lunchhour martini in the Red Carpet Lounge at Los Angeles airport. When Laermer pointed out it was cocktail hour somewhere, MacLaine laughed, "OK - let's say Singapore." Then, raising her glass of ginger ale, she toasted, "Here's to all the ladies working at brothels in Singapore." MacLaine might have a soft spot for working girls, since she played one in "Irma la Douce" (1963).

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Australian PM stands by Obama attack

 

CANBERRA, Australia (CNN) -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Monday stood by his comments from a day earlier when he said that terrorists should pray that Sen. Barack Obama and the Democrats take over the White House in 2008.

 

Both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. were telling Howard to butt out of American politics.

 

Speaking to Australia's ABC News Radio, Howard said his comments were aimed at the Illinois Democrat's plan to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq in March 2008.

 

"What I have done is to criticize Sen. Obama's views on a particular issue, and I don't retreat in any way from that criticism," Howard said. "I think if America is defeated in Iraq that will be catastrophic for the West and it will have tremendously adverse consequences for Australia."

 

Howard, who trails the opposition Labor Party in his re-election bid this year, criticized his opponents as being hypocritical.

 

"Apparently it's all right for people in the Labor Party to regularly criticize the Bush administration's policy on Iraq -- and they do that almost on a daily basis," Howard said. "Yet my criticism of the policy position of somebody who is not president -- and is not even the Democratic candidate for the presidency -- that is interfering in American politics and is absolutely to be forbidden."

 

On Sunday, Howard told an Australian TV program that, "If I were running al Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008, and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for Obama, but also for the Democrats."

 

Obama, campaigning in Iowa, told reporters Sunday that he was flattered that one of Bush's allies "started attacking me the day after I announced [a presidential run] -- I take that as a compliment."

 

The Democratic presidential hopeful said if the Australian prime minister was "ginned up to fight the good fight in Iraq," he needs to send another 20,000 Australians to the war.

 

"Otherwise, it's just a bunch of empty rhetoric," Obama said.

 

Some of Howard's critics have suggested that the prime minister's close alliance with President Bush has distorted his judgment -- a criticism he brushed aside.

 

White House aides expressed surprise over Howard's criticism of Obama, but one senior administration official supported for the Australian leader: "Prime Minister Howard knows that setting a timeline for a withdrawal sends the wrong signal to our enemies."

 

Several Democrats and Republicans suggested Howard should butt out of the debate.

 

"I would prefer that Mr. Howard stay out of our domestic politics and we'll stay out of his domestic politics," Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, told CNN's "Late Edition." "But I think his point is that we're going to have to deal with terrorist organizations like al Qaeda. They're not giving up and we shouldn't give up in this battle of wills."

 

Speaking on the same program, Oregon Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden called Howard's comments "bizarre." "We'll make our own judgments in this country with respect to elections, and Barack Obama is a terrific public servant," Wyden said.

 

Obama declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in a speech on Saturday in his home state. (Obama makes his announcement )

 

Like Bush, Howard has come under increased criticism at home for supporting the unpopular war.

 

Australia has more than 1,000 troops in and around Iraq, many in noncombat roles.

 

Obama dismissed Howard's suggestion that his election would help terrorist groups, noting that even the Bush administration's "own intelligence agencies have indicated that the threat of terrorism has increased as a consequence of our actions over there."

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Australian PM stands by Obama attack

 

CANBERRA, Australia (CNN) -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Monday stood by his comments from a day earlier when he said that terrorists should pray that Sen. Barack Obama and the Democrats take over the White House in 2008.

 

Both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. were telling Howard to butt out of American politics.

 

Speaking to Australia's ABC News Radio, Howard said his comments were aimed at the Illinois Democrat's plan to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq in March 2008.

 

"What I have done is to criticize Sen. Obama's views on a particular issue, and I don't retreat in any way from that criticism," Howard said. "I think if America is defeated in Iraq that will be catastrophic for the West and it will have tremendously adverse consequences for Australia."

 

Howard, who trails the opposition Labor Party in his re-election bid this year, criticized his opponents as being hypocritical.

 

"Apparently it's all right for people in the Labor Party to regularly criticize the Bush administration's policy on Iraq -- and they do that almost on a daily basis," Howard said. "Yet my criticism of the policy position of somebody who is not president -- and is not even the Democratic candidate for the presidency -- that is interfering in American politics and is absolutely to be forbidden."

 

On Sunday, Howard told an Australian TV program that, "If I were running al Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008, and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for Obama, but also for the Democrats."

 

Obama, campaigning in Iowa, told reporters Sunday that he was flattered that one of Bush's allies "started attacking me the day after I announced [a presidential run] -- I take that as a compliment."

 

The Democratic presidential hopeful said if the Australian prime minister was "ginned up to fight the good fight in Iraq," he needs to send another 20,000 Australians to the war.

 

"Otherwise, it's just a bunch of empty rhetoric," Obama said.

 

Some of Howard's critics have suggested that the prime minister's close alliance with President Bush has distorted his judgment -- a criticism he brushed aside.

 

White House aides expressed surprise over Howard's criticism of Obama, but one senior administration official supported for the Australian leader: "Prime Minister Howard knows that setting a timeline for a withdrawal sends the wrong signal to our enemies."

 

Several Democrats and Republicans suggested Howard should butt out of the debate.

 

"I would prefer that Mr. Howard stay out of our domestic politics and we'll stay out of his domestic politics," Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, told CNN's "Late Edition." "But I think his point is that we're going to have to deal with terrorist organizations like al Qaeda. They're not giving up and we shouldn't give up in this battle of wills."

 

Speaking on the same program, Oregon Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden called Howard's comments "bizarre." "We'll make our own judgments in this country with respect to elections, and Barack Obama is a terrific public servant," Wyden said.

 

Obama declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in a speech on Saturday in his home state. (Obama makes his announcement )

 

Like Bush, Howard has come under increased criticism at home for supporting the unpopular war.

 

Australia has more than 1,000 troops in and around Iraq, many in noncombat roles.

 

Obama dismissed Howard's suggestion that his election would help terrorist groups, noting that even the Bush administration's "own intelligence agencies have indicated that the threat of terrorism has increased as a consequence of our actions over there."

Mr. Howard, you are backing a lame horse, and you are the back end of one.

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From Awful Truth, 3/2/07

 

ENDBLAB""We were doing a photo shoot in Australia for Men in Black. And the photographer was kinda pushing Tommy...and he's saying, 'Tommy, Tommy, I'm not feeling the hope—you're the actor, figure out what to hope for!' And Tommy calmly sits there and says, 'Okay, I got it. I hope you fall off that box and break your f--kin' neck.' " —Will Smith, on the brutal honesty of Tommy Lee Jones

 

 

I love Tommy Lee Jones!!

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Endquote

 

"THE New York Post wrote that I was scantily clad and the Mets were horrified. What the [bleep] did I do? I wore a red dress. What do they care more about, a [bleep] dress or a world championship?" - Anna Benson, wife of ex-Met pitcher Kris Benson, in Penthouse.

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Starpulse News Blog

 

Avril Lavigne Blames 'Weak' Spears For Her Meltdown

 

Britney Spears is to blame for her recent meltdown because she's too weak to handle her fame, according to pop rival Avril Lavigne. The star claims Spears can't point the finger at the media for her headline-grabbing spells in rehab and her bizarre hair-shaving episode - because all celebrities have to deal with the fame that comes with their success.

 

She says, "What's happened to Britney is all down to who she is as a person. If you want a piece of this business you have to be able to deal with it. You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness because that's the job."

 

Lavigne adds that she is able to live a relatively normal life - by concealing her private life from the press. She says, "No one really gets to know."

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^Not to beat a dead horse (it's on its way) -

 

That's not really a smart quote in the least bit. Avril is clearly saying stupid shit (like she usually does) in order to get publicity for her new album. I mean, let's be honest - Avril and Britney are on two different levels, while one is a pseudo-punk rock chick that makes lame pop songs, Britney...is yeah.

 

I think the majority of people agree with me. Just because she's bashing Britney doesn't make her the automatic genius, she's a holier-than-thou, self-righteous jackass who needs to cool it with the black nail polish and take her has-been boyfriend back to Canada.

 

Dammit, "Girlfriend" is such an annoyingly catchy song though...

Edited April 3, 2007 by Babloo328

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I agree with Babloo. Avril Lavigne wishes she had the fame and career of Britney Spears. No matter how bad Britney's stuffed up lately, she doesn't make bitchy comments in the media about other performers. I think that's the only way Avril can make herself look good by comparison. It's not working...

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Blast At Cbs Nuts And Wimps

 

April 12, 2007 -- FORMER CBS News reporter Bernard Goldberg is biting the hand that once fed him in a new memoir, taking wicked shots at network CEO Les Moonves and anchor Katie Couric.

 

In "Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right," from HarperCollins, Goldberg says Moonves made the "dopiest statement in memory" when he called Couric "the Jackie Robinson of network news" after hiring her as the first solo woman evening anchor.

 

"Sorry, Les, but comparing a woman who gets paid big bucks to read the news to Jackie Robinson, a genuine American hero, disrespects everything Robinson stands for in America," Goldberg writes. "The problem is that Leslie Moonves inhabits a shallow subculture in America, a long plastic hallway where liberals run free and say the dumbest things. It's a place where they abuse history for no other reason than to satisfy their short-term needs."

 

After detailing the bigotry Robinson put up with as Major League Baseball's first black player, Goldberg fumes: "Let's look at the indignities that Katie Couric must contend with. There's that pesky $15 million salary. And those nasty limousines that whisk her about town. And, when she's on the road, CBS actually makes her stay in the most luxurious suites at only the finest hotels. And don't forget those dreadful Park Avenue A-list parties where fawning guests hang on her every word."

 

Goldberg - who contributed to the "CBS Evening News" and "48 Hours" for nearly three decades, won seven Emmys and is now a Fox News commentator - also takes on Couric's predecessor, Dan Rather, for clinging to his job in the wake of the phony George W. Bush-Air National Guard story even after four of his colleagues got axed.

 

Riffing on "courage," Rather's nightly, one-word sign-off, Goldberg writes: "How could a man of courage, a man who puts loyalty above almost everything else, have let them leave without going right out the door with them . . . Real courage requires real risk, sometimes even sacrifice . . . Dan, like so many other elites on the left, talks a good game. They all stand for the 'right' things. As long as it doesn't cost them anything."

 

Flacks for CBS and Couric had no comment. Rather's rep didn't get back to us.

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Riffing on "courage," Rather's nightly, one-word sign-off, Goldberg writes: "How could a man of courage, a man who puts loyalty above almost everything else, have let them leave without going right out the door with them . . . Real courage requires real risk, sometimes even sacrifice . . . Dan, like so many other elites on the left, talks a good game. They all stand for the 'right' things. As long as it doesn't cost them anything."

Sorry, gotta comment on this one. I think it's odd that Goldberg tries to imply that these people's status as left-wingers has anything to do with what's wrong with the picture. Power corrupts people of all belief systems, left, right, Republican, Democrat, Socialist, Communist, etc. You'd think he might be implying that maybe there's some extra hypocrisy present, since lefties are supposed to be the bleeding hearts. But how is it any worse than the God-fearing religious right condemning certain behaviors, then enacting those very same behaviors, sometimes secretly, sometimes openly? Hmmph.

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Riffing on "courage," Rather's nightly, one-word sign-off, Goldberg writes: "How could a man of courage, a man who puts loyalty above almost everything else, have let them leave without going right out the door with them . . . Real courage requires real risk, sometimes even sacrifice . . . Dan, like so many other elites on the left, talks a good game. They all stand for the 'right' things. As long as it doesn't cost them anything."

But how is it any worse than the God-fearing religious right condemning certain behaviors, then enacting those very same behaviors, sometimes secretly, sometimes openly? Hmmph.

 

It's worse in my opinion..because their news/ideas/principles are broadcasted on a daily basis and their voices at one time were the only voices out there...until the arrival of "fair and balanced" Faux News(basically a conservative slant in a overwhelmingly dominating liberal media). These are supposed to be the voices of reason, outside religion/politics.

 

I got a vibe from him that they are all tooting their horns as courageous individuals making accomplishments. I was pleased about a female anchorwoman being hired...but it isn't on the scale of Jackie Robinson as was made out to be.

 

But I'm with you on power corrupting in all circles.

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But I'm with you on power corrupting in all circles.

I agree. But as we only see or hear about the "bad" people ~ and there are those in every social, racial or religious group ~ they are the ones that all others are judged and stereotyped by. It's not fair but that's the way our society is.

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Lavigne attacks Brit again

(MSNBC.COM)

 

Avril Lavigne is blasting celebs who are tabloid targets.

 

The singer was quoted in a lengthy interview saying that celebrities who really want to avoid the press can do just that. And she says that Spears seems to be one of the few who isn’t able to pull that off.

 

Lavigne admits that she isn’t the focus of as much attention as her rival, but says that’s largely because she wants it that way.

 

“The press isn’t all over me like that,” Lavigne said in an interview published in the Scottish Daily Record. “She’s probably one of the people who can’t control it. But if you don’t want it, you could get away from it. I don’t want my picture taken all the time.” Lavigne recently denied making comments attributed to her that blamed the “Toxic” singer for her woes.

 

Lavigne added that she and her hubby, musician Deryck Whibley, aren’t tabloid targets because they avoid the press.

 

“If you want to be a tabloid couple, go around every red carpet in L.A., go to The Ivy for lunch,” she said. “We don’t do any of that. To us, it’s cheesy. It’s lame.”

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Notes from all over

 

Perry Farrell is not a fan of “American Idol.” “If you hear garbage music on your radio station, you have only yourself to blame,” the Lollapalooza founder and Jane’s Addiction front man tells the upcoming issue of Spin. “If you don’t support the arts, that’s what you’re going to get. You’re going to get ‘American Idol.’ It’s fine if you want to hear that, but I don’t.”

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Notes from all over

 

... Natalie Portman politely told a reporter it was none of his business if she was dating her “Goya’s Ghosts” co-star, Gael Garcia Bernal. The 25-year-old actress added she was always shocked when reporters asked her when she was in her late teens if she was a virgin. “Remember there was that time when Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson were proclaiming their virginity,” Portman told the London Guardian. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding?’”

 

this woman...

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Dissing Justin

 

ACTRESS Sallie Toussaint is no fan of Justin Timberlake. Toussaint, who stars in "The Departed" and who used to date Prince Albert, told Smooth magazine, "I would definitely not date a guy like [Timberlake]! Bringing sexy back? Why doesn't he bring his b - - -s back? After the Janet [Jackson] thing where he didn't step up, I stopped liking him. He could have helped tremendously by just being a man, but he didn't. He ripped her top and ran. Timberwuss is quite the fairy. He needs to man up!"

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(Pagesix.com)

 

Mel Eyes Broadway Solo

 

IS Mel Brooks Broadway-bound as a solo act? The man behind "The Producers" was overheard recently at a Hamptons eatery tossing around the idea of doing a one- man show on Broadway. He said he has no shortage of show-business anecdotes and could easily fill 90 or 120 minutes. Among the tales Brooks told was one about Richard Pryor, who was set to appear in Mel's "History of the World Part I." After setting himself on fire while freebasing cocaine in 1980, Pryor called Brooks to tell him he had to drop out of the movie because he'd been burned up and was lying in a hospital bed. Brooks laughed, thinking it was a joke. Then Pryor said, "I'm serious - my whole body was engulfed in flames. So unless I'm playing Joan of Arc, you got to get someone else!"

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Rather most likely stayed on because quitting would have voided terms of his contract and he may not have been paid. Staying on until being fired probably was a better deal for him financially. Obviously, this all depends on the terms of his contract.

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Don Imus In Context

 

CHARLES Barkley thinks Don Imus should have been suspended, but not fired, for insulting the Rutgers women's basketball team. On last night's "Boomer Esiason Show" on MSG, the NBA star said, "It was an insult to those young ladies. . . . He owed them an apology. I think a suspension was warranted." Barkley criticized civil rights leaders for ignoring Imus' insults against Jews, Asians and others. "Anytime something happens, you [media] guys have a magnet on Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, like they speak for all black people . . . which is unfortunate and unfair. Al and Jesse have said racist things before. I don't think you can have selective prosecution . . . that's not right, that's not fair."

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Armstrong takes Hill, touts bill

By Jim Tankersley

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WASHINGTON -- Cycling champion Lance Armstrong brought a small army of about 200 cancer survivors to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, touting a bill to expand screening and research for the disease and, in an interview, implying Iraq war spending impedes cancer-fighting legislation.

 

Armstrong opposed the war before it began. In a phone interview after a news conference to unveil the cancer bill, whose sponsors include Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Armstrong said he would like to double current federal spending on the National Cancer Institute but called Washington's current fiscal situation "challenging" for that and other anti-cancer efforts.

 

"Unfortunately, when you spend money in other places, you have to rob Peter to pay Paul," Armstrong said. "We're sort of being left out here."

 

Asked if he was referring to Iraq, he replied: "War is expensive. It's not a political flap to say the war cost $500 billion. ... What could we have done with $500 billion in the war on cancer?"

 

Armstrong said he would like to expand federal efforts to fight the disease, from screening to treatment to end-of-life care.

 

The bill, which was introduced Wednesday, would authorize new state screening programs through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and cancer institute research to develop new screens, along with expanding services for cancer survivors.

 

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The Personals Page was compiled by Emily Rosenbaum from Tribune news services and staff reports.