– Tom Cruise, when asked by Oprah Winfrey if he planned to propose to girlfriend Katie Holmes, whose childhood dream was to marry the Top Gun hunk.
• "No secret recipe for it, really. Just consuming vast quantities of food and lifting heavy weights."
– Christian Bale, when asked how he packed on 100 lbs. for his title role in Batman Begins
• "Give her a break. She's 18 years old, having fun a little bit – so what? We can't expect to be perfect when we're kids, man."
– Former teen idol Matt Dillon, on his Herbie: Fully Loaded costar Lindsay Lohan
• "Everything has been going so well lately, it literally brings me to my knees."
– Pregnant pop star Britney Spears, writing on her Web site about renovating her house and starting to decorate the baby's room
• "He seems like a great guy. I'd never heard him talk before, and I still don't think I have."
– Emmy-award winning talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, after interviewing Spears's famously unintelligible husband, Kevin Federline
• "We were going to start working on it after the tour was over. … Now it will be put off; not forever – we pray and hope – but for the time being."
– Olivier Martinez, on plans to start a family with girlfriend Kylie Minogue, who had a cancerous lump removed from her breast last week
• "There's a part of me that feels like I have a mission to look like crap on film."
– Cinderella Man's Paul Giamatti, known for his disheveled movie characters
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– Gwyneth Paltrow, on recovering from clinical depression after her dad, director Bruce Paltrow, succumbed to throat cancer in 2002
• "Somebody told me recently they stopped coloring their hair after I did so well on the challenges."
– Silver-haired New York City firefighter Tom Westman, 41, winner of Survivor: Palau
• "He's the one that always comes through and saves everybody. I'd like to have a pal like that who would come and save me once in a while."
– George Lucas, discussing his favorite Star Wars character, R2-D2. The last installment of the franchise grossed a record-breaking $158.5 million in its first four days of release
