10 Stupid Celebrity Quotes

10. “I’m so smart now. Everyone’s always like ‘take your top off.’ Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I’m not stupid.”

Paris Hilton



9.“ I look at [modeling] as something I’m doing for black people in general.”

Naomi Campbel

8. “If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it’s Big Business.”

Donald Trump

7. “So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?”

Christina Aguilera

6. “I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can’t help it. I’m just a cliché of myself.”

Keanu Reeves

5. “I’m not anorexic. I’m from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I’ve never heard of one. And that includes me.”

Jessica Simpson

4. “I’m sounding worse than Jessica Simpson right now. She’s looking like a rock scientist.”

Tara Reid

3. “I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that’s very popular out there in Africa.”

Britney Spears

2. “I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

1. “I love California. I grew up in Phoenix.”

Dan Quayle

Kate Winslet Talks Fat, Nudity & Nabbing a [Bleeping] Oscar

'Once a fat kid, always a fat kid,' sighs the lovely Kate; plus, the Jolie-Pitts go trick-or-treating; romance rumblings galore with Jen & John, Sienna & Balthazar and lots more ...Kate Winslet may have five Oscar nominations, effortless gorgeousness and a happy home life, but she admits she still has to contend with her chubby inner child.

"This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous," the sublime actress tells the December issue of Vanity Fair, which features her on the cover in her most sultry, skin-teasing Catherine Deneuve-inspired pose (check out more shots from the spread here). "I never had huge ambitions -- never. ... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses."

Winslet, 33, who in her teens once tipped the scales at close to 200 pounds, concedes that she "just did not see myself in that world at all, and I'm being very sincere. You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that."

It's a feeling that apparently tends to bubble up when she sees stylish types teetering on stilettos.

"I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that,'" figures Kate, before common sense takes over. "But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'"

The actress, who is married to director Sam Mendes and is mom to Mia, 8, and Joe, 5, approaches the maintenance of her enviable figure with the same pragmatic attitude.

"Everyone can commit to 20 minutes," she says of her workout regimen, "especially if there's a glass of Chardonnay afterwards."

It's a tip Winslet would probably share with the other parents at her kids' school, if she could overcome the feeling that they're sizing her up instead of trusting Us Weekly's tagline that stars really are "just like us."

"You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are," she observes. "You know, these mothers are going to read this article and they're all absolutely great, but I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it's for a split second, at some point I'm being checked out. And some of them will even say to me, 'OK, what's the secret with the skin?' At which point I'm like, 'Oh my God, there's no secret. I have makeup on. And by the way, since I turned 30, I've had an acne problem on my chin. I'm just like everybody else -- I just know how to cover it. If you'd like me to show you how, I'd be more than happy.'"

Still, one judgment she's sure to welcome is from her "king of the world"-spouting "Titanic" leading man Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom she's reteamed for the Mendes-directed "Revolutionary Road."

The actor, who's apparently over that whole "you sent me to a watery grave even though I'm pretty sure there was room on that wooden board you were floating on" thing, declares Winslet "the most talented actress of her generation."

And with Oscar buzz building for her "Revolutionary" role, not to mention her turn opposite Ralph Fiennes in the post-World War II drama "The Reader," Winslet is up front about her desire to claim a little bald naked gold guy of her very own.

"Do I want it? You bet your [bleeping] ass I do!" she enthusiastically acknowledges. "I think that people assume that I don't care or don't want it or don't need it or something. It's hard to be there five times, and I'm only human, you know? But I don't go home and cry, because we're all grown-ups here."

Funnily enough, one Academy Award winner who did her crying onstage as she collected her statue has revealed a desire to be more like Kate.

"[She's] always naked, sitting on a toilet, running buck-naked. She's free," Halle Berry gushes to Elle. "I want to be the kind of actress who can really be comfortable with my body like that."

But that on-camera comfort doesn't come easy.

"I know that in order to do my job as truthfully as I can -- because to me that's everything -- you really have to not give a [bleep] [about what people think]," explains Winslet. "You have to be prepared to look stupid and you have to be prepared to walk around naked in front of a crew of people you've never met before and may never see again. And it is scary."

And that may be why her personal wants tend to be refreshingly simple.

"I need to be looked after," Kate tells the magazine. "I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff --- in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it and it's not me, you know?"

What she does need is "someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.' I mean, the things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner," she notes. "Big family gatherings, and being able to go to the grocery store -- if I can get those things in, I'm doing good."

Hathaway Wading Back Into the Dating Pool With Actor?

If we were Anne Hathaway, background checks would be mandatory for all potential beaus to avoid a repeat of what happened with conman ex Raffaello Follieri, who was recently sentenced to four-and-a-half years in the pokey for wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. So, here's hoping the rumored new guy in the actress's life has been thoroughly vetted.

Life & Style says she's smitten with actor Adam Shulman, whose biggest role to date has been, well, being linked to the doe-eyed star (his IMDb credits include a stint on the series "American Dreams" and the coveted part of Enos in the award-winning TV movie "The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning").

The pair was snapped stepping out together last week in New Orleans, where Hathaway, 25, attended a screening of her buzz-heavy drama "Rachel Getting Married" with Shulman, 27, in tow.

"We met through mutual friends," Adam is quoted as indiscreetly -- and unpromisingly -- telling the tabloid. "I came to support Anne. We've never been to New Orleans before -- it's our first time."

But was Shulman already in a relationship when he and Hathaway first crossed paths?

"He was actually seeing someone else," the actress is said to have told pals over a post-premiere dinner at a New Orleans restaurant, during which she was supposedly seen "resting her hand on Adam's leg" and eating off his plate. "I thought I was going to have to step back."

If we were Anne Hathaway, background checks would be mandatory for all potential beaus to avoid a repeat of what happened with conman ex Raffaello Follieri, who was recently sentenced to four-and-a-half years in the pokey for wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. So, here's hoping the rumored new guy in the actress's life has been thoroughly vetted. Life & Style says she's smitten with actor Adam Shulman, whose biggest role to date has been, well, being linked to the doe-eyed star (his IMDb credits include a stint on the series "American Dreams" and the coveted part of Enos in the award-winning TV movie "The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning"). The pair was snapped stepping out together last week in New Orleans, where Hathaway, 25, attended a screening of her buzz-heavy drama "Rachel Getting Married" with Shulman, 27, in tow. "We met through mutual friends," Adam is quoted as indiscreetly -- and unpromisingly -- telling the tabloid. "I came to support Anne. We've never been to New Orleans before -- it's our first time." But was Shulman already in a relationship when he and Hathaway first crossed paths? "He was actually seeing someone else," the actress is said to have told pals over a post-premiere dinner at a New Orleans restaurant, during which she was supposedly seen "resting her hand on Adam's leg" and eating off his plate. "I thought I was going to have to step back." "Adam's everything Raffaello wasn't," pronounces a mole. "He's sensitive and kind to a fault. I think Anne may have found a kindred spirit." But Hathaway's rep is throwing cold water on the tabloid's contention that she's dipped her big toe back into the dating pool. "Nothing in the Life & Style piece is accurate," the spokesman pooh-poohs to E! News. Meanwhile, the owner of the eatery where the actress was purportedly spied getting personal with Shulman's leg and dinner plate says she was there with her "Rachel" director, Jonathan Demme: "She wasn't on a date -- it appeared to be more or less business." A few weeks back, Hathaway told People that she's "totally single right now," but teased that she did "meet a sexy guy the other day." "This guy I know in L.A. is kind of doing it for me right now," she shared. "When I think of sexy, I think of him. You know when sometimes you don't know someone very well -- you'll probably never see them again -- but you just meet them and you're like 'WOW, you really have it going on'?" On the subject of Follieri, "I don't wish to talk about my personal life," Hathaway acknowledges to the Los Angeles Times. "But I talked about it before there was anything newsworthy to talk about. I set the precedent. And now, out of respect for the machine, I have to honor it." The actress sidesteps specifics by comparing her situation to her character in "Rachel Getting Married," explaining, "I'm playing a character who's coming home and everybody knows her 'bidness.' And here I am promoting this movie and everyone knows my business. It's one of those moments where art imitates life." But she realizes the moment is fleeting. "I don't expect all this to last -- the good, the bad, the scrutiny," Anne tells the paper. "It's just a moment. I'm not going to hold on too tight in any respect."

Romance Report: Paris' 'Scumbag' Ex, Jen & John's PDA

"Every other guy I've been out with has used me for money or sex -- but in most cases they just want fame. It made it hard to trust people." That's Paris Hilton, tearfully sharing her tale of woe with Britain's News of the World as she promotes the U.K. version of her "BFF" series. She says one of those so-called users was Rick Salomon, her co-star in the decidedly unsexy, action-lacking sex tape that put her on the map. "I loved this guy for three years, but he betrayed me. Rick's a scumbag and I hate him," huffs the increasingly slimline starlet of the man who last year briefly became the third Mr. Pam Anderson. "It was just the most horrible thing that's ever happened to me. So humiliating and embarrassing. But at the end of the day, I didn't do anything wrong." Still, such lack of loyalty left her wondering "exactly why somebody wanted to be with me," she says. "And that made things really difficult." But from her dark, porn- and Greek billion-heir-littered past has emerged a brighter, Benji Madden-crammed present. "I'm so relieved I don't have to think about that now because I've found someone who loves me for me. Benji's my best friend, and I know he'd never hurt me," pronounces Paris, who with the Good Charlotte rocker recently went overboard with the lovey-dovey declarations as they denied rumors that his eye had wandered. "My love life's in the happiest place it's ever been. Benji's with me because he loves me and that's it. I know I can trust him, and he knows he can trust me." Hilton adds that she'd "love to start a family in the next year," but unlike sometime BFF Nicole Richie, who welcomed daughter Harlow in January with Benji's twin brother Joel, she prefers to go the more traditional route. "I want to get married before we have kids," she says. "I want three or four."

Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer's resuscitated romance has been a boon for more than just the tabloids. It's also provided some well-deserved publicity for singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne, whose music has become the unofficial soundtrack for the capricious squeezes. The actress, 39, and the crooner, 31, turned up at LaMontagne's Los Angeles concert last Thursday, an outing that came just weeks after they re-emerged as a twosome by going on a "very public date" to the "Trouble" troubadour's show in Boston. "They were hugging," a spy at the Los Angeles performance tattles to E! News, "but there wasn't any kissing." Aniston and Mayer, who recently gushed on his blog that LaMontagne is as "brilliant as any artist that has ever lived," were equally hands-on earlier in the week as they hit their go-to spot, the Sunset Tower Hotel. An eyewitness tells People they "were very loving and sweet together -- very affectionate." At least when they weren't networking. "There were a lot of industry people around at other tables," adds the mole. "Every time they got up, they were saying 'hello' to someone else."

Speaking of meet-and-greets, Mayer apparently isn't interested in having one with his ex, Jessica Simpson. Both People and Us have details of their "awkward" chance encounter on Oct. 22 at the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Seems John walked by his Tony Romo-smitten former flame as she dined with a few pals and dad Joe -- and kept right on going. "They definitely locked eyes," a source tells People. "[But] they never interacted. ... Jessica had the 'I cannot believe this is happening' look on her face." Or, as the Us mole more succinctly recalls, she said "holy s---" as Mayer made a hasty exit. The frosty run-in comes three months after the direct-to-DVD country warbler publicly expressed her gratitude to her onetime boyfriend. "John believed in the Jessica Simpson that's within," she self-affirmed to Elle. "He cherished our love. He helped make me the woman I am today. John is going to be an amazing man for someone, but I know that I was supposed to be with someone else."

Interested in a little high school-style drama to take your mind off more serious matters, like, say, the election or the state of your 401(k)? Miley Cyrus seems only too happy to oblige. During a performance in Paris on Halloween, the not-quite-16-year-old powerhouse introduced "7 Things," a song she's hinted is about her pop idol ex, Nick Jonas, by sending it out to those unlucky-in-love tweens who "hate their ex-boyfriend." Then, as the song ended, Miley tossed out, "I still hate you." Those seemingly negative feelings make it something of a head-scratcher as to why her rumored beau, Justin Gaston, reportedly decided to dress up as a Jonas Brother (and possibly the Jonas Brother) for Halloween. The attention-seeking underwear model-cum-wannabe singer, 20, happily posed for paparazzi as he handed out candy to trick-or-treaters outside the Cyrus family home.

Is mutual goofiness the glue that's holding Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon together? The surprisingly durable couple donned two amusing getups to host a Halloween eve bash in New York, arriving dressed as firefighters (or, in the bra-flashing chanteuse's case, the Victoria's Secret version of a firefighter) before changing into a milk-and-cookie combo (Mariah sported a flesh-colored leotard covered in the chocolate chip-filled treats, thereby killing our Famous Amos craving for a good long while). People reports Mr. and Mrs. Cannon were celebrating their six-month anniversary at the soiree, an occasion that Nick, who was deejaying, marked by announcing from the booth, "I love you, and happy anniversary." Meanwhile, the New York Post says they were just as moony during a recent stop in Miami, with a spy, who's apparently read one too many romance novels, relaying how they "embraced lustfully like love-struck lovers" following one of Nick's DJ gigs. But the National Enquirer believes there's dirty weather ahead for the lovebirds, claiming they're battling over how and where to spend New Year's Eve. Mariah supposedly wants to celebrate quietly in the Bahamas, while Nick is said to be looking for a big payday to host a Las Vegas bash with his more famous missus. "Mariah and Nick love each other," a mole tells the tab, "but if they can't solve this problem, it could end up being a lonely New Year's Eve for them both."

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Kate Beckinsale as she shows off her incredible figure in a new photoshoot

She battled anorexic at 15, shrinking down to just five stone, but Kate Beckinsale finally looks comfortable in her own skin.

The 5ft 8in actress stripped off to just her briefs and a cardigan for a photoshoot for the current issue of Elle magazine.

In the accompanying interview, the 35-year-old hits out at Hollywood's obsession with size.

She says: 'I'm amazed that people obsess over my body image so much. Why do we encourage this war on women's bodies? It's a horrendous way to live, and I refuse to.'

Kate, who stars in the upcoming drama Nothing But the Truth, says she now has a much healthier view of her body, which she once described as 'a twig with a bum and small breasts’.

'I’m entirely normal. I have my good days and my bad days. I am a lot more body confident now I’m in my thirties, and am in better shape, too.

'I didn’t have a clue [about healthy eating] when I was in my twenties – I’d eat a small breakfast and lunch and then have a baked potato for dinner and feel really horrible.

'Now my typical daily diet is eggs or oatmeal for breakfast, a chicken or vegetable wrap for lunch, then fish and vegetables for dinner. But if someone turns up with cupcakes mid-afternoon, I’ll have one. I’m not aiming to be Gisele.

'And I’d hate to be one of those people who won’t allow themselves a slice of birthday cake.’

But she still struggles to keep motivated when it comes to exercise.

‘I just can’t make it part of my daily life. I go to the gym when I have to, and if I have to bulk up or slim down for a film, I will.

'I’ve recently got back into exercising four times a week. I run for half an hour at a time but never outdoors as I don’t exercise in public. My gym’s in my garage at home.’

Kate, who lives in LA with husband Len Wiseman and her nine-year-old daughter Lily from a previous relationship, also addressed her friendship with the Beckhams.

'We just hung out and went for nice dinners. Victoria is lovely and very down-to-earth. She loves taking the p*** out of herself, which is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. We laugh a lot together.’

Brunette beauty: Helen Flanagan

Coronation Street's Helen Flanagan put on a bold front in a plunging plum-coloured cocktail dress for the launch of the show's spin-off DVD.

But she appeared to be having some difficulty keeping her charms under wraps, as she was seen discreetly adjusting her frock.

The 18-year-old who plays teenage temptress Rosie looked stunning in her little plum dress, complete with sequinned straps, and platform sandals.

And just like her onscreen character, she's becoming almost as famous for her daring hemlines and low-cut tops.

Helen has said: ' I feel sexy and womanly in heels and a short skirt.

'Have you seen the push-up bras I have to wear? I've actually got quite large boobs but those bras I wear for Rosie make them look massive.'

'I'd never dress like that in real life but I love doing it on the show. Dressing like a tramp is dead good fun', she told the Daily Mirror.

She added: 'I feel very comfortable with my body. I'm not shy or embarrassed about it.'