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Paris Skips Out
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• "Yes, of course. It was P. Diddy's birthday. You'd sneak out too if you were stuck in Jersey."
Paris Hilton, on whether she and Nicole Richie ever ditched their assigned families while filming The Simple Life 3

• "... My stomach is enormous and the bigger it gets the smaller my ass looks. So I'm kind of enjoying this."
– New mom Julia Roberts on her pregnancy, just days before giving birth to twins Phinnaeus Walter and Hazel Patricia

• "I'm going to have fun with my husband and see what happens."
Madonna, on the possibility of having more children

• "I've had a career since I was 16, have traveled around the world & back and even kissed Madonna! The only thing I haven't done so far is experience the closest thing to God and that's having a baby. I can't wait!"
Britney Spears, in a letter to fans on her Web site, on her desire to be a parent

• "She's in great demand for people to visit with at lunchtime."
– Inmate Carol Gilbert, about Martha Stewart's popularity during meals at the Federal Corrections Camp in Alderson, W. Va.

• "My wife said, 'I bet you wish you'd taken a shower this morning, don't you?' I'm not vain, but I guess I don't want women running into me (thinking), 'What's the big deal with him? '"
Desperate Housewives star (and one of PEOPLE's Sexiest Men of 2004) James Denton, to the New York Post, on living up to his new sex symbol status

• "That's good, I definitely deserve that. I kid when I say that. But perhaps not so much kidding."
Donald Trump, on making GQ magazine's Man of the Year list

• "... So at one point, we're in the room together by ourselves, and he turns to me and he goes, 'So you want to make out?' And I was like, 'No.' "
Robert Downey Jr.'s finacee, Susan Levin, to Oprah, about the actor's first advances toward her

• "Bob and I were obsessed with women. When Duvall and I started looking at acting classes, we'd pick the ones that had the best-looking, most interesting girls."
Dustin Hoffman, to GQ, about his days as a struggling actor in New York City living with Robert Duvall