My Life Is The Only One I Have

I think loving your life is probably the secret of looking good.
(Eva Cavalli)

I don’t have any regrets whatsoever because it has been my life… I’ve been very privileged, I’m lucky and I’m still alive.
(Helen Baxendale)

I am finally waking up to the fact that life is here to be lived… it is the only one I have.
(Liz Jones)

I have a heart defect – but I don’t let the condition rule my life.
As I’ve got older I’ve learnt to listen to my body more.
In 2007, doctors found that I have a bicuspid valve, which means my heart needs to work harder in order to function.
Around the same time, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.
They were two major wake-up calls.
In my own case, I felt as if my body was shouting at me, pleading with me to slow down a bit.
It’s just something that I need to monitor, and I have to get regular scans.
It might deteriorate, it might not.
If it does then I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
(Edith Bowman)

Lily Allen tweeted that I was a trollop.
That was hard to take, especially as I’d never even met her.
(Edith Bowman)

I Hope That I Don’t Hurt People

I don’t think anybody is completely confident with themselves or their body.
I’m sure there are always things you want to change.
People say horrible things about you and it hurts.
Of course it does. I’m human and I hate it.
I’ve never tried to analyse myself.
I have no idea whether I’m completely sane.
I should imagine that I’m not. I don’t think anybody is.
I see the world through my eyes and it’s sometimes a strange world.
I hope that I don’t hurt people. I think that’s it.
You don’t hurt yourself too much, you don’t hurt others.
Maybe that’s keeping yourself in check.
Early on in my career, I just took what was offered.
There wasn’t an option.
With Pirates, I didn’t have anything else on so it was a case of, OK, I’ll do that. Wicked, I’ve got a job.
I’ve had an extraordinary journey and I’ve been stupidly lucky.
Some of it’s been completely wonderful and I’ve loved it – some of it’s been very difficult and I haven’t.
But that’s life.
(Keira Knightly)

I Start To Smile Whenever I Think Of Him

If I met the 16-year-old Tommy Lee now, we’d still have a lot in common.
I swear there’s a part of me that has never grown up and I’m sure it never will.
I still drag that little guy around with me every day.
What would he think of me?
He’d be shocked by certain things I’ve done.
I guess, there’s certain things, probably some of the naughtier things – the drugs, the women – that would shock him.
He’d be very inquisitive, he’d want to know it all, but I’d try to protect him, like I try to shelter my own sons.
Looking back, I still think some of my happiest times were with me and my dad when I was a kid.
I start to smile whenever I think of him.
He died about six or seven years ago.
He loved to sit by the lake, so a few days before he died I rented a big house boat and I took him out there in his wheelchair.
We spent a couple of days by the lake just talking and I got to say everything I needed to say to him.
I’m so glad I got the chance to do that.
I miss him a lot.
(Tommy Lee)

George Clooney For President?

When George Clooney was asked if his political side would ever tempt him to run for the White House, he said:
“There’s a guy in office right now who is smarter than almost anybody you know. He has more compassion than almost anybody you know and he’s having an almost impossible time governing.
Why would anyone really volunteer for that job?
I already have a really good job and I get to hang out with very seductive people”.

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I’m surrounded by friends who are married and have children and maybe some day that will be me.
But I’m not wanting to do anything like that right now.
I’m the greatest aunt and have a lot of fun with kids.
But at the end of the day I really enjoy being able to give them back to their parents too.
I’m a kinda selfish person who right now enjoys being single, enjoys the fact that I can work as much as I do, and not really have to answer to anyone.
(Kelly Clarkson)

Beverly Hills Is A Vampire City

The truth is I’ve actually never wanted to interview Madonna.
I’ve always thought of her as a highly annoying creature, and I know the feeling’s mutual.
(Piers Morgan)

Beverly Hills is a vampire city – I hate going there.
There’s definitely a bubble in LA with only one type of industry going on, and it gets to me.
I’m originally from New Jersey and I prefer the mentality on the east coast of America.
I like living in New York.
I have anonymity here that I don’t have in Los Angeles.
London was too vast, too big a city for me when I first went there, but now I love it.
(Kirsten Dunst)

At weekends I try to take time out to think – and for me that means a walk along the River Thames near where I live.
I grew up in this area of West London, so I feel really at home here.
I love the amazing old houses and fantastic views – it’s like stepping back in time.
(Sophie Ellis-Bextor)

It’s important to have your own life.
As soon as you give up too much of yourself it just turns bad.
(Kirsten Dunst)

I’d Better Be Careful Who I Marry

When you turn 40, America has no idea what to do with you – it’s as though women go into a vacuum seal.
But now that I am in my 50s, I have been allowed to re-emerge.
I have absolutely no objection to growing older.
I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing – I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years.
(Sharon Stone)

I only get called my real name, Victoria, when I’m in trouble.
My mum always calls me that when I’ve been out of order.
To everyone else I’m always Pixie.
Pixie Lott is just a good pop name, I think.
My mother’s last name was Martin.
Pixie Martin hasn’t got the same ring to it.
I’d better be careful who I marry.
If I have to change my name it has to be one that looks right on my record sleeves.
(Pixie Lott)

I don’t like to gain weight.
I don’t like it if I bend over and fat bends over with me.
(Sharon Stone)

Marilyn Monroe Fans Never Forgave Him

Born Bernard Schwartz to immigrant Hungarian Jewish parents in 1925, his early years were spent hustling on the streets of New York.
The death of his kid brother after being hit by a truck affected him for ever.
But Tony Curtis was determined to be a star, and with his thick black hair and dazzling looks, he was soon in demand as a swashbuckling adventurer in exotic action dramas.
By the mid-fifties he had become one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars.
Yet it was his performance in Billy Wilder’s 1959 film Some Like It Hot that secured his status as a movie great.
Curtis had briefly dated the young Marilyn Monroe when they were both starting their careers and their pairing was enough to reignite their earlier passion, to the extent that Monroe became pregnant with Curtis’s baby, but she later miscarried.
Their celluloid love-making scene resulted in one of his most infamous asides, when he described making love to Marilyn as ‘like kissing Hitler’.
He later contended his remark was taken out of context, but many Monroe fans never forgave him.

I Believe In Miracles

Life’s hard.
It’s even harder when you’re stupid.
(John Wayne)

Be Yourself.
Everyone else is already taken.
(Oscar Wilde)

It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
(Marilyn Monroe)

I can’t be thick because I know what a spork is.
It’s a cross between a spoon and a fork –
I knew that because I’ve taken one camping.
(Sam Faiers)

I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
(Audrey Hepburn)

I Was A Blitz Baby

Birth is a happy, dangerous, emotional mystery, and celebrating is an irresistible impulse.
(Libby Purves)

For years, I played the role of the perfect child – until the teenage years arrived.
Then it was very different.
Mum is one of the most respectful and diplomatic human beings one could dream of.
(Poppy Floyd)

I was a blitz baby.
My brother was sent to the country as an evacuee, but I was in the house with my mother getting bombed.
The irony is that here we are, the world has changed, and the Germans want to run Europe.
They failed to do it by war, twice.
What is it?
Is this the Fourth Reich?
I’m only reflecting what’s been going on in the country for some time.
We have more and more rules coming out of Europe telling us what to do, and I think people are getting a bit fed up with it.
This was supposed to be a common market.
I don’t remember them ever saying we would be governed by Brussels and become a satellite of Europe.
But there you are.
At least we’re not throwing bombs at each other.
(David Jason)

I Always Wanted To Be Bond

Next year I’ll work on me.
It’s a new chapter.
I’ve got a new journey I’m going on.
(Nicole Scherzinger)

For the last 12 months I’ve been having singing lessons.
My grandma used to sing in pubs in the 1940s for a few bob.
(Dean Andrews)

I always wanted to be Bond, as in a spy for the secret service, not the fictional character.
(Josh Bolt)

My dad is one of 11 children and there are more than 40 of us grandchildren.
(Rooney Mara)

I was engaged to a beautiful woman.
I managed to screw that up very quickly.
(Marlon Roudette)

I was in the computer business back when apples and blackberries were things you put in pies.
(Lord Alan Sugar)