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25 Best Celeb Quotes This Year

Miley apologizes, Tina channels Sarah and more from the year's biggest stars. By Christie LaRusso
By People Staff Updated January 21, 2022 05:48 PM
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"I feel so embarrassed."

– Miley Cyrus, apologizing before the release of her back-baring Vanity Fair photo, to PEOPLE

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"That's fierce!"

– Project Runway season four winner Christian Siriano, on everything

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"This song is for the emotionally retarded. You might know a few people who fall into that category. God knows I do."

– Madonna, performing in Boston after the announcement of her divorce from Guy Ritchie

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"You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick."

– Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, introducing herself to voters at the Republican National Convention

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"I can see Russia from my house!"

– Tina Fey, impersonating Gov. Sarah Palin, on Saturday Night Live

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"I sit there and I'll look back and I'm like: I'm a smart person. What the hell was I thinking?"

– Britney Spears, reflecting on her erratic behavior from the beginning of the year, in MTV's documentary For the Record

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"And now she'll cook and clean for me."

– Ellen DeGeneres, joking about Portia de Rossi's domestic duties as her new wife, to PEOPLE

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"I cried my eyelashes off."

– Oprah Winfrey, on her reaction to then-presidential nominee Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention

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"Welcome to the makeup sex."

– Host Jon Stewart, acknowledging the end of the writers strike as he opened the 80th Annual Academy Awards

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"For my Blake, my Blake incarcerated."

– Amy Winehouse, giving a shoutout to her jailed husband Blake Fielder-Civil, as she swept the Grammy Awards

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"Camila and I made a baby together ... We are stoked and wowed."

– Matthew McConaughey, announcing that he was expecting his first child with girlfriend Camila Alves, on his Web site

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"I'll see you at the debates, bitches."

– Paris Hilton, responding to Sen. John McCain's use of her image in a presidential campaign ad with a spoof video of her own, on FunnyorDie.com

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"It's great for the sex life."

– Angelina Jolie, on the perks of pregnancy, to Entertainment Weekly

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"That stuff about how she couldn't wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool."

– Jennifer Aniston, responding to Angelina Jolie's comments about working with Aniston's then-husband Brad Pitt, to Vogue

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"I'm f---ing Matt Damon."

– Sarah Silverman, in her Emmy Award winning mock video for boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel, on the 5th anniversary of his late night show

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Ben Affleck: "Thank God my daughter is too young [to understand]."
Jimmy Kimmel: "Well, she's our daughter now."

– After Kimmel and Affleck revealed their star-studded revenge video – "I'm F–ing Ben Affleck" – on Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon

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"I can snort you under the table."

– Elton John, bickering with a tipsy Lily Allen onstage, at the GQ Men of the Year Awards

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"Even the airport-security guy in Canada asked me, 'So, is it true?' "

– Samantha Ronson, on the widespread curiosity about her relationship with Lindsay Lohan, to Harper's Bazaar

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"I toot under the sheets, I spend a lot of money and I can belch the ABC's."

– Jessica Simpson, on what her boyfriends put up with, to PEOPLE

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"If I can't get the girl, why don't I just tell her I'm John Mayer?"

– John Mayer, spoofing his songwriting abilities, on Funnyordie.com

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"I just want to say, it's not bad to wear a promise ring, because not everyone, guy or girl, wants to be a slut."

– Jordin Sparks, addressing the night's digs about the Jonas Brothers and their promise rings, while presenting at the MTV Video Music Awards

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"I won't go to a club now for less than $100,000."

– Spencer Pratt, on how he makes a living courtesy of his Hills fame, to David Letterman

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"Maybe you're the problem."

– David Letterman, suggesting to Lauren Conrad a possible reason why she has issues with all of her Hills friends, on Late Show

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"I'm still sober!"

– Tatum O'Neal, following her arrest for buying cocaine, to The New York Post

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"She's just fat!"

– Felicity Huffman, squashing the pregnancy rumors surrounding her Desperate Housewives' costar Eva Longoria Parker, to PEOPLE

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