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Helen Mirren - A Dame but not a Mame

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I'm so happy I don't have children. But I do love children and I've got family, and Taylor has children that I'm involved with - and with great pleasure - but it's just not for me.

If it weren't for them, there wouldn't be any guys names Oscar either

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if there were no blacks, jews or gays there would be no Oscars

— Ellen DeGeneres, Host
2007 Oscars

She's keeping it real

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I don't think it's going to happen this time.

— Penelope Cruz's answer to Ryan Seacrest's wishing her an Oscar this year.

Steve Soderbergh has a conscience

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"I feel bad for Warners. I don't like losing money for anybody.

"More importantly, the person coming in behind me to pitch something that's off the beaten track - well, sorry, but that's just not going to happen. We've shut the door on that for a while.

"That's really sad. Not for me - I got to make the movie, I'm happy. But the two or three people behind me will have to go elsewhere."

— Steven Soderbergh, Director & Producer
Commenting on his box-office failure, The Good German

At least the accent was good

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He told me, 'I'm learning my lines for a new movie with Colin Farrell. I'm playing the part of a gangster - I'm the bad guy. It's about a murder that goes wrong. I'm practicing my Cockney accent.'

So I asked him to do some for me and he did it and was really good.

— Lisa Robertson, the flight attendant who got banged without a condom by Ralph Fiennes; the Oscar-nominated actor who happened to be en route to India to lead a conference on AIDS prevention as a Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF.

Like a virgin

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I lost my virginity all over again that day, in so many ways. I don't think I will be having it done again.

Ben Affleck, on the dubious merits of colonic irrigation

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