Natasha Richardson

What Story Does Your Family Love to Tell About You?

By Molly Lopez

UPDATED 01/08/2007 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 01/08/2007 at 01:00 AM EST

"My dad used to bounce me on his knee when I was 3 years old and say, "Movies, movies, movies."
—NATASHA RICHARDSON

"For a six-month period when I was a kid I was really into these brown cowboy boots. I liked to wear them no matter what [else] I was wearing. I'd wear them with shorts in the middle of the summer in Ohio. I just didn't care."
—JOHN LEGEND

"When I was young I was playing on the steps and my mom yanked me and I bit my tongue. I had to get 11 stitches."
—LUDACRIS

"I was cast as Joseph in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in junior high. By the time we started performing, I was in the middle of puberty and cracked my way through the entire run. To this day, it gets thrown in my face every time my head gets a little too big."
—WENTWORTH MILLER

"I put an onion in the washing machine when I was 2 years old. It ruined both the clothes and the machine."
—EMILY WATSON (Miss Potter)

"Growing up I was obsessed with Pippi Longstocking. On a daily basis I would put a wire hanger in my hair so the braids would [stick] out, draw freckles on myself with a pen and sit at the bay window posing like Pippi."
—EVA MENDES

"I don't allow them to tell funny stories about me because I will sue them. I will take them to court—because I play hardball."
—WILL FERRELL