10 Best Celeb Quotes This Week

Jessica's thankful to pass "airport check," plus more from Joel Madden, Katy Perry and others
By Christie Larusso
Updated February 18, 2010 04:00 PM

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"I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. Thanks. That’s great. Good to know I’m not fat today. Thank you!'"
– Jessica Simpson, making light of the comments about her weight, to Allure magazine

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"You're not watching TV, honey. It's a live show."
– Adam Lambert, stopping mid-song to ask a member of the audience to get off her cell phone, at his iheartradio secret show at New York's P.C. Richard amp Son Theater

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"I was nervous last night. So I Pledged [as in Lemon Pledge] everything in my room. Some people eat, some people drink – but I Pledge everything."
– U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir, sharing his warm-up routine before Tuesday night's men's short program at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, to PEOPLE

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"Sometimes I really feel like I'm more of a Taylor Swift... Love has really affected my songwriting. I know how to handle a man now."
– Katy Perry, on the evolution of her music since falling for fiancé Russell Brand, to Nylon magazine

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"I saw someone bigger than me on THAT flight! But I wasn't about to throw a fellow Fatty under the plane as I'm being profiled. But he & I made eye contact, & he was like 'Please don't tell...'"
– Kevin Smith, after being kicked off a Southwest Air flight for being too fat, on Twitter

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"I've already got an Oscar. I've got a couple of them."
– Avatar director James Cameron, on why he will not be a sore loser at this year's Academy Awards, on The Charlie Rose Show

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"Yeah we've been engaged for a while so your (sic) all kind of late on that. But Thanks for the hooplah (sic) all the same."
– Joel Madden, after news broke that he and girlfriend Nicole Richie will be getting married, on Twitter

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"It's like kind of giving birth. You give it out to the world and they either become a juvenile delinquent or the next President of the United States."
– Leonardo DiCaprio, equating the success or failure of his films to childbirth, to ABC News Nightline

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"She's pretty much retired me."
– R&B singer Akon, on hitting the jackpot by signing Lady Gaga to his record label prior to her mega success, to The Huffington Post

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"I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems."
– Elton John, giving his own take on Christianity, to Parade magazine

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