“You’ve got a hot bod; don’t keep it to yourself,”  “Why wear a pantsuit when you can wear a swimsuit? Welcome to the Lower 49, girlfriend.”

…….her stellar advice to Sarah Palin as told to Harper’s Bazaar

“It’s not just in strength or just a sense of cool. He’s such a gentleman. When you work on a film with him, he treats every single person on the crew with an enormous amount of gratitude and respect no matter what they’re doing.

“And he really makes a point to show it and encourages the best in everybody. If somebody screws up he makes them feel like it wasn’t their fault and they can try again. That kind of leadership and grace is very, very rare.”

…….on her experience working with director Clint Eastwood in the Changeling

“No matter how much she breaks down, she still has the beehive of sorts and the outfits and eyeliner. When I see pictures of her I wish I could tidy her up a bit.”

……on Dita’s desire to give Amy Winehouse a makeover

“Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn’t harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8,”

……his statement regarding his $100,000 donation to fight California’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that would take away same-sex couples’ right to marry.

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“We broke up after Ella was born. We’d been on again, off again for those few years. But we always wanted to make it work, we wanted to be together, we wanted to raise our family together. And it’s been a lot of hard work and counselling, and I think that’s the only way to make it work, to put in the time and effort.
“I can’t talk about why and what happened (when I left), obviously. But going away doesn’t make it work.

……..vowing to make his marriage work after regretfully walking away from Rhea Durham

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“I’d go out and get drunk in Barbados, but I never went over the top. I was never in Amy Winehouse mode. I’d seen what alcohol and drugs had done to my dad and I wasn’t going to follow in his footsteps. I knew my limits when I was a kid and I still do.
“I go out to have fun, to dance and laugh at people fighting or dressed like whores. I never get to the point where I want to throw up, can’t stand up straight or say things I’m likely to regret in the morning.”

…..lessons Rihanna learned from having an alcoholic father