By Wonderwall.com Editors
3:56am PDT, Jul 6, 2009
"They seem to enjoy life a little bit more. They aren't running around as much as in New York. They enjoy time with the family. They don't always have their Blackberries on." — Gwyneth Paltrow, on the difference between life in Spain and life in the United States
"[Michael Jackson will] go down in history as one of our greatest entertainers. … I grew up on his music. I still have all his stuff on my iPod." — President Barack Obama, talking to the Associated Press
"I have a go-to karaoke song, and it's "Cheating," and the cheating is cheating. They can't say what it is, but I can't tell you what it is." — Joseph Gordon-Levitt, clearly still distraught and incoherent over his onscreen relationship with Zooey Deschanel, at the "500 Days of Summer" premiere in Los Angeles
"I'm very, very excited about doing it. I'm really excited to work with him." — Cameron Diaz, on reuniting with Tom Cruise for their new film, "Wichita" (In Touch Weekly)
"The narrator [Lauren Conrad] didn't get along with us. She skewed the information on the show, just like the American government can manipulate the media. We used to have a phenomenal relationship with the media. They've kind of turned on us now because they've created us into such a monstrous thing … like they made us too big, like they Obama-sized us." — Spencer Pratt, in an appearance on Alex Jones' radio show
"Oh, we talked about it all the time. But he'd come up with, 'Man, I promise you I have this disease,' and so forth, and, 'I have a blister on my lungs,' and all that kind of b.s. It's hard because Michael's a Virgo, man — he's very set in his ways. You can't talk him out of it. Chemical peels and all that stuff." — Quincy Jones, talking to Details about Michael Jackson's ever-changing appearance (Huffington Post)
"I know I've gotten too skinny. I know I need to sort it out. I am going to put on 15 pounds in one month … I do not have body dysmorphia. Seriously, I want to get fatter. You know, when I was 192 pounds I thought I looked hot!" — Courtney Love, addressing her doctor's diagnosis of malnutrition (Cele|bitchy)
"It's all about, 'They're coming! Run!' That's what I said for half the movie. In a certain sense, it's not the most difficult role, but you still want to give it as much depth as you can." — Josh Duhamel, on his role in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (Men's Health)
"If I was going to change the law, I'd actually say [you should be allowed to do] everything at 20. Being able to have a drink should be 20, being able to vote, at least being legally held responsible as an adult. Twenty years old, that's an adult." — 19-year-old actress Hayden Panettiere, talking to Seventeen magazine, on legalizing a standard "adult" age
"I didn't know if marriage was something that was super important to me. I thought, maybe I don't need that in my life. I didn't take the decision (to get married) lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me." — Mandy Moore, on her marriage to rocker Ryan Adams (Women's Health)
"I want Hilary Duff to play me. I think she's really hot — hotter than me — but I'd still want her to play me." — Meghan McCain, on which actor she'd want to portray her in a movie (NY Daily News)
"We are here, we are queer, and it's about time that the military gets used to it!!! Discrimination is so 2000." — Tila Tequila, blogging about the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals
