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Zsa Zsa Gabor : US (Hungarian-born) actress

Liam Gallagher : British singer/songwriter in the band Oasis

Noel Gallagher : British singer/songwriter in the band Oasis

Jerry Garcia : US lead guitarist/singer/songwriter with the band Grateful Dead/counterculture iconAva Gardner : US actress

Ed Gardner : US radio/tv actor/comic

Janeane Garofalo : US comedienne/actress

Brad Garrett : US actor/comedian

Paul Gascoigne : British footballer

Bill Gates : US computer software businessman/co-founder of Microsoft Corp

Gareth Gates : British singer/runner-up in Pop Idol

Sarah Michelle Gellar : US actress

Richard Gere : US actor

Greg German : US actor (Richard Fish in Ally McBeal)

Ricky Gervais : British comedian/actor

J Paul Getty : US Oil Billionaire/Art Collector

Barry Gibb : British singer/songwriter/guitarist with the band The Bee Gees

Mel Gibson : US actor/director/producer

Andre Gide : French critic/essayist/novelist

John Gielgud : British actor

Kevin Gildea : Irish comedian

Terry Gilliam : US writer/animator/director/member of the Monty Python team

Peri Gilpin : US actress

Jackie Gleason : US actor/comedian

Jean-Luc Godard : French film director

Whoopi Goldberg : US actress

William Goldman : US novelist/screenwriter

Samuel Goldwyn: US (Polish-born) film producer

Jade Goody : British reality tv star

Julie Goodyear : British actress

Elliot Gould : US actor

David Gower : British cricketer/captain of England team/broadcaster/commentator/writer

Kelsey Grammar : US comedy actor

Cary Grant : US actor

Hugh Grant : British actor

Peter Graves : US actor

Andy Gray : British footballer/broadcaster

Tamsin Greig : British actress

Melanie Griffiths : US actress

Tony Gubba : British football commentator

Bob Guccione : US magazine publisher/founder of Penthouse

Pedro Guerrero : US baseball player

Christopher Guest : US actor/writer/director

Alex Guinness : British actor

Sacha Guitry : French actor/director/playwright/screenwriter

Adrienne Gusoff : US writer

 

 

Zsa Zsa Gabor : US (Hungarian-born) actress

 

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

 

I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

 

Husbands are like fires.  They go out when unattended.

 

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

 

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

 

Macho does not prove mucho.

 

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. 

 

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Liam Gallagher : British singer/songwriter in the band Oasis

 

            I’ve got a fucking hairy arse.

 

I suppose I do get sad, but not for long.  I just look in the mirror and go, ‘What a fucking good-looking fuck you are.’  And then I brighten up. 

 

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Noel Gallagher : British singer/songwriter in the band Oasis

 

Sure I love Liam - but not as much as I love Pot Noodles.

 

You pick up your guitar, you rip a few people's tunes off, you swap them around a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and then, and it sells.

 

Being in a band was all I could do.  It was either that or jut sit around the house eating chocolates all day.

 

Has God played Knebworth?

 

In response to “What do Gem and Andy bring to the band?”  Gem brings two packets of crisps and Andy brings a lunchbox and some sandwiches.

 

I went to Paul McCartney's daughter Stella's party and who should open the door but the man himself. He was dead cool. There were all these questions I wanted to ask him but I settled on: “Do you watch Brookside?”

 

If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go: 'Hmmm, yeah, fair enough, gotta go home now.’ 

 

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Jerry Garcia : US lead guitarist/singer/songwriter with the band Grateful Dead/counterculture icon

 

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. 

 

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Ava Gardner : US actress

 

Referring to Frank Sinatra’s marriage to Mia Farrow:  Hah! I always knew Frank would end up in bed with a boy!

 

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

 

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Ed Gardner : US radio/tv actor/comic

 

            Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. 

 

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Janeane Garofalo : US comedienne/actress

 

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. nd I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. 

 

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Brad Garrett : US actor/comedian

 

As Robert Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond:

 

 

 

Paul Gascoigne : British footballer

 

See the OOPS! page. 

 

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Bill Gates : US computer software businessman/co-founder of Microsoft Corp

 

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. 

 

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Gareth Gates : British singer/runner-up in Pop Idol

 

See this scar on my head?  When i was about four I had a wart there …. it was tiny and I had to have it burnt off.  (Pause).  I can't believe i just told you that.

 

Yeah were going to the club tonight, haven.t been to the club for a long long time, a long long time woooo boom ching ching boom ching ching wooo.

 

There were all these screaming girls, they were trying to rip my shirt off and grabbing my arse and I was like Don't touch my hair!!

 

When i was really young, she used to sit me in front of the washing machine if I cried because I'd just watch it going round and round and fall asleep! Thanks Mum! That's well tight, ain't it? 

 

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Sarah Michelle Gellar : US actress

 

            I love good bottles of wine and saké – I’m not a cheap date. 

 

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Richard Gere : US actor

 

On the secret of his enduring popularity:  It's the hairspray.

 

My name is Richard Gere and I am a lesbian. 

 

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Greg German : US actor (Richard Fish in Ally McBeal)

 

When asked which of his girlfriends in the series was his best snog:  A snog's a kiss, isn't it?  That's such a great word.  I must try to get snogged while I'm in the UK.  They were all wonderful snogs.  My theory is that if they snog you, it's got to be good.  Christina Ricci, Lucy Liu, Dyan Cannon and Jacqueline Bisset - I wouldn't rate one above the other, for fear I might suffer some consequence.  Kissing is fun.  Snogging is a good time - and it's a great word, too.  It sounds like something you'd do on a farm with an animal.

 

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Ricky Gervais : British comedian/actor

 

On making The Office:  We realised we didn’t want big incident.  Most days in an office don’t start with a murder.  Or someone having to bring a tiger into work because of that mix-up with the zoo.  Most people if they’re sitting in an office bored, and they hear a car crash out the window  they get excited and have a look. 

 

People don’t seem to bother me.  They either respect my privacy, or they just don’t like me.

 

Why do you suddenly have to get up at six?  I checked it out.  I thought, ‘I’m in charge now … why can’t we start filming at 9 a.m?’  And they said, “Oh no, it’s technically illegal to ask a crew to start that late.  In fact, it still carries the death penalty in certain parts of the industry to start the day later than seven in the morning.”  That gets my goat.  Having said that, my dad used to hod carry for 40 years of his life, and I start whingeing about making TV ….

 

What I love is those people who are more impresed by someone they’ve seen on Night Fever or Holby City than someone like Martin Luther King.  You know, someone who’s actually done something.  You could point out, “There’s the bloke who’s cured cancer,” and they’d be, “Yeah, but that’s that Narinder over there from out of Big Brother.” 

 

On who he wanted to win I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here:  Tony Blackburn.  Because he’s nice and relatively normal.  Just think about that: they had eight people, one of them was Tony Blackburn and he was the most normal.  What were the chances of that?

 

When asked if he’d participate in Celebrity Big Brother:  Not. Under. Any. Circumstances.  It’s too much.  I get sick of the sihgt of me, and I think I’m great.  The only temptation to do it would be to go on and annoy people, and then I’d be out after the first day so that would be a pyrrhic victory, wouldn’t it?  My question is:  can Narinda do Celebrity Big Brother now?

 

            As David Brent in The Office:

 

If you were to ask me to name three geniuses, I probably wouldn’t say Einstein, Newton... I’d go Milligan, Cleese, Everett. Sessions.

 

(Gareth: I’m assistant regional manager).  Assistant to the regional manager.

 

Me, lager. Finchy, Lager. Gareth, lager sometimes cider, so different drinks for different...needs.

 

This is the Accounts Department, the number bods. Do not be fooled by their job descriptions, they are absolutely mad, all of ‘em. Especially that one, he’s mental. Not literally of course, that wouldn’t work.

 

Well, you’re not looking at the whole pie Jenny.  Wernham-Hogg is one big pie, and if they’ve let me in charge of that one big pie, then I’ll be in charge of the pie, and the people are the fruit - (Jennifer:  I don’t have time for the pie thing David).  Yeah, oh, well I’ll take the job please.

 

The thing is though, no-one’s dispensable in my book, because we’re like one big organism, one big animal. The guys upstairs on the phones, they’re like the mouth. The guys down here, the hands.  (Jennifer:  And what part are you?)  Good question. Probably the humour.

 

(Jennifer:  Well surely it’s gonna be worse for morale in the long run when there are going to be redundancies and you’ve told people there won’t be).  ...... they won’t remember.

 

This is the poem Slough, by Sir John Betjemen, probably never been here in his life. ‘Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, it isn’t fit for humans now.’ Right, I don’t think you solve town planning problems by dropping bombs all over the place, he’s embarrassed himself there.

 

Well, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that Neil will be taking over both branches, and some of you will lose your jobs. Those of you who are kept on will have to relocate to Swindon, if you wanna stay. I know, gutting. On a more positive note, the good news is, I’ve been promoted, so .... every cloud. You’re still thinking about the bad news aren’t you?

 

Some of you seem to have got off on the wrong foot with me. You didn't like some of the jokes I told earlier. You've got to chill out, yeah, trust me, this is what I do, alright? You will never work in a place like this again. This is brilliant - fact. And you will never have another boss like me. Someone who's basically a chilled out entertainer.

 

I've always been in the paper industry. My parents owned a paper shop. Until it blew away.

 

So my motto would be:  Be careful because there’s always someone else ready to step into your shoes and do your job better than you. 

 

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J Paul Getty : US Oil Billionaire/Art Collector

 

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

 

The meek may inherit the earth -- but not its mineral rights. 

 

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Barry Gibb : British singer/songwriter/guitarist with the band The Bee Gees

 

            We're so overground, we're underground. 

 

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Mel Gibson : US actor/director/producer

 

On what women want:  After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

 

In Lethal Weapon: 

 

As one shepherd said to the other, "Let's get the flock out of here.” 

 

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Andre Gide : French critic/essayist/novelist

 

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. 

 

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John Gielgud : British actor

 

            Referring to Ingrid Bergman: She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.

 

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Kevin Gildea : Irish comedian

 

            I bought an audio cleaning tape. I'm a big fan of theirs. 

 

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Terry Gilliam : US writer/animator/director/member of the Monty Python team

 

Not a quote as such, but a line he wore on a t-shirt when he served on the Cannes Film Festival jury in May 2001:  Can Be Bribed.

 

Referring to the book “Terry Gilliam: el Soñador Rebelde” by Jordi Costa and Sergi Sánchez:  The book is terrific. It’s an extraordinary achievement … It almost seems as if I have lived an interesting life.

 

            As the Zulu presenter in The Meaning of Life:

 

            Hello, good evening and welcome to the middle of the film. 

 

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Peri Gilpin : US actress

 

            As Roz Doyle in Frasier:

 

So I step out of the shower, and I look out the window, and I notice the garbage man looking right in at me. So I say, "Did you get a good look?" and he says, "Not completely, turn around." Then he smiled and he was missing a tooth, and that's when the romance went right out of it.

 

For your information, this guy happens to be a very successful media consultant. He graduated from Princeton, he has a house on Mercer Island and he owns a forty foot sailboat.  (Frasier: You met him on a bus, didn't you?)  No. Actually we shared a cab. All right, he was driving it.

 

(Peeking through a keyhole trying to see Maris): I see her coat on a hat rack.  (Frasier: Look closer. Is the hat rack moving? )  Oh my God!!

 

It wasn't that Gary was bad in bed. He knew where all the parts were. Unfortunately, most of them were his. Yes, totally passionless. It was like he was thinking of someone else. I know I was.

 

(Frasier:  Why is it that whenever we try to have a serious discussion, we end up talking about your sex life?)  Because I have one.

 

(Frasier:  What do you do when the romance goes out of a relationship?)  I get dressed and go home.

 

(Daphne:  I must say, I'm so proud of you, Roz, being nominated in a male-dominated industry. It's one more step forward for working women. You're a credit to our gender).   Why thank you, Daphne. That reminds me. Do you have a push-up bra I could borrow?

 

Everything was going great, until I said "I love you, Ben"... then he got this look on his face, like he'd taken a wrong turn in a really bad neighbourhood.

 

(Niles: Are you quite finished undressing him with your eyes?)  Oh please, I'm already looking for my stockings and trying to remember where I parked my car.

 

Wow, it reminds me of college: staying up all night before a big exam and wishing I'd studied instead.

 

When I die, I want it to be on my 100th birthday, in my beach house on Maui, and I want my husband to be so upset he has to drop out of college.

 

There's a cute new handyman in my building. I thought I'd just go home, slip into my negligee, and rip out my faucet.

 

I'm a cat person. I mean it's not like I'd ever buy a cat mug or a cat calendar, or anything, but I had a cat when I was growing up. We were almost inseparable. Muffles, or Scruffles, something like that.

 

I'm just sitting here thinking what if my kid gets Rick's nose, and my ears and eyes? Throw in my grandfather's third nipple, I might as well pitch a tent and charge admission. 

 

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Jackie Gleason : US actor/comedian

 

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first.  By the second you’re off it.

 

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Jean-Luc Godard : French film director

 

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. 

 

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Whoopi Goldberg : US actress

 

I'm being stalked by my ass - it's gotten bigger since I hit 45 and there's nothing I can do about it - no amount of exercise will change it. 

 

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William Goldman : US novelist/screenwriter

 

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. 

 

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Samuel Goldwyn: US (Polish-born) film producer

 

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. 

 

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Jade Goody : British reality tv star

 

            See the OOPS! page. 

 

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Julie Goodyear : British actress

 

            On a chat show, while pointing to her own breasts:  That’s Newton and that’s Ridley.

 

            As Bet Gilroy in Coronation Street: 

 

Now, now Alec. If you're going to be catty I shall have to see about getting you doctored. 

 

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Elliot Gould : US actor

 

            As Trapper John McIntyre in M*A*S*H:

 

... No! No booze! Sex! I want sex! (noticing Hot Lips) That one! The sultry bitch with the fire in her eyes! Bring her to me! Take her clothes off and bring her to me! 

 

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David Gower : British cricketer/captain of England team/broadcaster/commentator/writer

 

            On They Think It’s All Over:

 

            (Ashia Hansen:  Is it that programme on Channel 5?)  They are programmes on Channel 5?! 

 

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Kelsey Grammar : US comedy actor

 

            As Frasier Crane in Frasier:

 

(Roz: On line four, we have Ted, who's feeling a little bit disconnected).  Go ahead, Ted. (Dial tone)  Well, I hope Ted appreciates irony.

 

There's an incredible piece of scientific equipment known as the Tunneling Electron Microscope. Now, this microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building block of our universe. If I were using that microscope right now, I still wouldn't be able to locate my interest in your problem.

 

... And though washing one's hands 20 to 30 times a day would be considered obsessive-compulsive, please bear in mind that your husband is a coroner. Thank you for your call, Janine.

 

(Brenda: Hi Dr Crane. I'm having a problem with my sister. She's always - (click) - Oh, wait a minute, that's my other line).  Something tells me I'm going to be siding with Brenda's sister.

 

And in closing, this goes out to Keith, the narcolectic I spoke to a bit earlier. I'd be glad to resume when you feel a bit more alert. But, in the meantime I suggest you reconsider applying for that traffic control position.

 

(Roz:  I read somewhere that if you have physical contact on a regular basis, it can actually extend your life).  Well, in that case, you should outlive styrofoam.

 

Roz, he's probably all of nineteen!  (Roz: That's legal).  Well, coo coo ca choo, Mrs Robinson!

 

(Niles: I thought you liked my Maris!)   I do, I... I like her from a distance. You know, the way you like the sun. Maris is like the sun. Except without the warmth.

 

(Niles, referring to Maris: Just remember that she can't have shellfish... poultry, red meat, staturated fats, nitrates, wheat, starch, sulfates, MSG or herring. Did I say nuts?)  Oh, I think that's implied.

 

There's nothing wrong with Maris that wouldn't be cured by a little sun, some excercise, and a personality.

 

On Maris:  I remember her struggle to lose that holiday pound.

 

Referring to his gay boss:  .... I can't understand how he would think that. We only talked about the theatre and fashion...Oh Dear God!

 

How can we possibly use sex to get what we want? Sex is what we want.

 

What's the one thing better than an exquisite meal? An exquisite meal with one tiny flaw we can pick at all evening.

 

Seeing Niles's outfit: Say, am I crazy, or is there a bright golden haze on the medder?

 

(Lilith: Frasier, I like what you've done with your apartment. You have some beautiful things).  The settlement is final, Lilith.

 

(Lilith: Brian is a seismologist at MIT).  Oh, well, that's perfect - Brian being a seismologist, and you having so many faults.

 

(Madeline: When I come back, I'll make you forget you were ever married to Lilith!)  That's never happened before without a prescription! 

 

Shh!  What's that? Lilith is making love in there!  (Madeline: I don't hear a thing!)  Exactly!

 

Oh Frederick is fine. Oh he sends his love. He said to thank you for the toy gun you gave him - at least what he can remember of it before Lilith smashed it to bits with a croquet mallet.

 

(Niles: Double latte, full fat, chocolate shavings).  Ah. The self-pity special.

 

(Niles: Machiatto. Make it a double).  Niles!  Niles please, whatever's wrong, the answer doesn't lie at the bottom of an espresso cup. 

 

Did I say decaf?  (Waitress: No, you didn't).  Oh, I'm sorry. If I drink the regular stuff it'll keep me tossing and turning all through my brother's conversation.

 

(Martin: You develop certain instincts when you're a cop, and my instinct tells me this case can be cracked. There just must be one small thing I keep overlooking).   There is.  Who the murderer was.

 

Niles, listen. I've got to do this commercial in half an hour and I just don't think I can go through with it, I'm afraid that I'm compromising my integrity as a psychiatrist.  (Niles: Why do you feel like that?)   Well, for one thing my co-stars are dressed up as an almond and a walnut. 

 

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Cary Grant : US actor

 

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.  

 

I improve on misquotation.

 

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant.  Even I want to be Cary Grant.

 

I play myself to perfection.

 

In Arsenic & Old Lace: 

 

Insanity runs in my family, it practically gallops. 

 

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Hugh Grant : British actor

 

Some actors start with the inner person, the soul. Some start building the characters they play by finding the right shoes. I go for the hair.

 

I sing like a hyena.

 

It's a five-story house that we're still fixing up. What has really happened is Elizabeth has so many clothes, four of the floors will be devoted to her and her wardrobe. One small attic room will be set aside for Hugh. I'm becoming such a hermit in my old age I'm just going to go up there and sit in front of a little gas fire. Five years from now, people will come to the house to see Elizabeth, and they'll just hear me shuffling about upstairs and give each other knowing looks. That'll be it. I'll never come down.

 

I had one guy at a gas station in New York say to me, "Hey, you look like Hugh Grant. No offence.”
 

I had a huge crush on Olga Korbut, the gymnast. The only other person was Cliff Richard, which is embarrassing - it means that when I was seven I had bad taste and was presumably gay.

 

To get my union card in England, in those days, you had to go through regional theatre. You weren't allowed to do TV or film straight away. And to get in, I simply flirted with the gayest director I could find, who was then furious when I turned up for the job and turned out to be straight. That's why I played such interesting parts that season: tree in wind, third shouting peasant ....

 

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be f---ed by the weather.

 

I do frequently fancy the girls I'm working with, particularly if I have to snog them. There's something so fabulous about two strangers being made to kiss. I think being on set is a very sexy atmosphere. Extremely sexy. Even if I don't really fancy the actress, I always get a stirring. It can be embarrassing.

 

It's a cliché for actors in light comedy to say it's underrated, but it is torment. Hard, hard, hard. Knowing where the jokes are and how to play them never gets recognised - it's always the people with deep, dark, serious, mentally handicapped performances who win prizes.

 

I look at a lot of actors and I think, ‘Yeah, that's pretty much him’. With the exception of the Gary Oldmans and the Daniel Day-Lewises, I don't see massive changes in most film actors from part to part. But I should just point out, in passing, that in About A Boy, from an English point of view, I was actually doing just a teeny bit of acting there. Because the character is very North London - not posh. There's actually an accent I'm doing in that film.

 

I’ve traditionally liked midgets.  And I quite like deformities.  I went out with a hunchback for some time.

 

In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women's breasts?

 

Explaining why he hadn’t managed to make a baby yet:  My father made such a bad job of it.  I remember something about men and women loving each other very much and then giggling something.

 

I used to stick things up my nostrils...I liked to stick apple peels. I don't know why I did--yards and yards of apple peel. There was [an] ear, nose and throat specialist at London Hospital [who] saw me sort of every three weeks for a period of time...I'd have to have it removed by tweezers.

 

I make a big fuss about health. I go to see the doctor a lot. A hell of a lot, yeah. There was one who asked me to stop coming after a bit. But I've had very very bad luck with doctors. I had one I used to go and I used to say: "I have this terrible throat" and he'd go: "Oh, so have I." He always had what I had except worse.  And then I had one and I'd go and I'd say: "You know, actually I really don't feel very well, I've got this buzzing in my head and everything" and he'd go: "Mmm, and any trouble.. downstairs?" He was obsessed with downstairs. Yeah, it's bad luck with me and doctors.

 

At the BAFTAs: The nominees for the best actress in a leading part are... (Clips of the nominees are shown.)  And the winner is... Julia Roberts. Sadly, Julia can't be here tonight, but she did send me a letter, which she asked me to read out. It goes: "For God's sake call me, with every day that passes I miss you more and more. It's just not working out with Benjamin, I need you big boy."  Actually that's a different letter she sent, I'm sorry.

 

Referring to unfounded rumours that he was being intimate with Sandra Bullock:  Sandy is in love with me, and I really like Sandy, but for me it’s just a sex thing.

 

I could do with more mobbing.

 

John Major made a speech and I said to him afterwards, “That was very funny, which is strange, because you’re so boring on television.”  He looked pretty angry.  Then I said the same thing to his wife and she looked quite angry too.  After that, I went straight home.”

 

I am, in many ways, the reverse of Richard (Curtis). I'm full of poison and jealousy. Virtually no milk of human kindness.

 

One of the triggers for me in About A Boy is that Will has everything ordered right down to the half-hours of his life. I've done half-hours. I even put 'make sub-lists'. I have main lists and sub-lists and worries for the day. So you could have 'wash cups' and then 'decide what to do with life'.

 

I make a big fuss about health. I go to see the doctor a lot. A hell of a lot, yeah. There was one who asked me to stop coming after a bit. But I've had very very bad luck with doctors. I had one I used to go and I used to say: 'I have this terrible throat' and he'd go: 'Oh, so have I.' He always had what I had except worse. And then I had one and I'd go and I'd say: 'You know, actually I really don't feel very well, I've got this buzzing in my head and everything,' and he'd go: 'Mmm, and any trouble... downstairs?' He was obsessed with downstairs. Yeah, it's bad luck with me and doctors.

 

Announcing an award at the BAFTAs:  The nominees for the best actress in a leading part are ... (Clips of the nominees are shown.)  And the winner is ... Julia Roberts. Sadly, Julia can't be here tonight, but she did send me a letter which she asked me to read out. It goes: 'For God's sake call me, with every day that passes I miss you more and more. It's just not working out with Benjamin, I need you big boy.'  Actually that's a different letter she sent, I'm sorry.

 

I'm the world's worst career planner. It's rather like the London buses, you wait four hours and the bus never comes, and then twenty come at once. I suppose that's what I've modelled my career on, the London bus system.

 

Ultimately you have to settle down. And I worry that I've made the wrong choice being unmarried and without a family. Although I take satisfaction from the hugely prevalent failures of my friends' marriages. Ninety-five per cent of them have f**ked up now. That is a great comfort.

 

As Charles in Four Weddings And A Funeral:

 

There's nothing more off-putting at a wedding than a priest with an enormous erection.

 

In the words of David Cassidy - in fact, uh, while he was still with The Partridge Family - uh - I think I love you. 

 

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Peter Graves : US actor

 

            As Captain Oveur in Airplane!:

 

You ever been in a cockpit before? (Joey: No sir, I've never been up in a plane before). You ever seen a grown man naked? 

 

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Andy Gray : British footballer/broadcaster

 

            See the OOPS! page. 

 

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Tamsin Greig : British actress

 

I'm very bad at keeping a straight face. And that's my job, really, to be near very funny men and not laugh, and basically I'm very, very bad at my job.

 

As Fran in Black Books:

 

(Discussing her sorry history with boyfriends)  Or Raymond.  Do you remember Raymond?  (Bernard: What was his thing?  Didn't he live with his mother?)  Yeah.  In a car.

 

(Bernard, running into his shop: What happened? What happened?)  Oh you were burgled again. (Bernard: Huh? But there's nothing left to take. What did they get?)  As far as I can make out, they took the security system.

 

Oh my god. Mickey Rourke had another facelift. He looks like his trousers.

 

(Talking about her failure at playing the piano): Oh it's so unfair. I must be musical. I've got hundreds of CDs.

 

Oh Manny, don't. My head. Josef is coming, he'll squeeze my face again, my brains will come out my nose and I'll die.

 

(Bernard: I think you've got a case. You should get a lawyer). (Manny: Yeah. It's expensive though. Maybe you could get someone to pretend to be a lawyer). (Bernard: Yeah, someone who's just a bit like a lawyer. Arrogant. Cruel. Crooked. A liar. A real bastard. That'll sort them out). (Fran and Manny stare at Bernard).  (Bernard: No I'm not doing it!)  Oh go on. And then when you get a girlfriend, I'll give you a reference. I'll lie for you. I'll say you were ok.

 

(Manny [helping Fran find a job]: Sales manager in a huge department store?)  Too busy. (Manny: Beautician on a cruise liner?)  Too boaty.

 

I keep buying things to cheer myself up. I go to get a paper and I come back with all this. (Bernard: Chocolate. Magazines).  (F. throws a set of keys onto the desk)  And a Vauxhall Astra.

 

Hey, hey, hey, right, if you trace it back, and I might be wrong about this, but I come from a very good line. Apparently, I am Queen Victoria's ....... uncle.

 

Melanie Griffths : US actress

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

            In Working Girl:

 

I've got a head for business and a body for sin. 

 

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Tony Gubba : British football commentator

 

See the OOPS! page. 

 

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Bob Guccione : US magazine publisher/founder of Penthouse
 

If I were asked for a one line answer to the question "What makes a woman good in bed?" I would say, "A man who is good in bed.” 

 

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Pedro Guerrero : US baseball player

 

            See the OOPS! page. 

 

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Christopher Guest : US actor/writer/director

 

            As Nigel Tufnell in This Is Spinal Tap:

 

You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of  - (Marty DiBergi: What do you call this?)  Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump."

 

The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and -
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Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?)

 

Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

 

(Marty:  Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?)  (Pause) ... These go to eleven.

 

(Marty DiBergi: "This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.")  That's just nitpicking, isn't it?

 

We've got, you know, armadillos in our trousers.  It's really quite frightening, the size.

 

‘How much more black could this be?' And the answer is: 'None...none more black’.

 

You can't really dust for vomit. 

 

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Alec Guinness : British actor

 

            I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor. 

 

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Sacha Guitry : French actor/director/playwright/screenwriter

 

When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. 

 

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Adrienne Gusoff : US writer

 

Not only is life a bitch, but it’s always having puppies.

 

So many men, so few bullets.

 

Farting DOES NOT constitute ‘aroma therapy’.

 

If you're swimming and get tangled in seaweed, sea kelp.

 

Girls just want to have funds. 

 

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