The 10 Best Celebrity Quotes of the Week

See what the stars are saying this week

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"Once Zaya came home and said, 'I want you to call me Zaya and I'm ready to take on this,' I looked at her and said, 'You are a leader. And this is our opportunity to allow you to be a voice.'"

- Dwyane Wade, opening up about the moment his 12-year-old came out to him and how important it is to give her "the best opportunity to be her best self," on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

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"What's hard is people changing their vocabulary; that's very, very difficult. It takes time. Everyone messes up. I'm going to be misgendered to the day I die. This is going to take a long, long time for people to not use gender in their vocabulary."

- Sam Smith, on shifting away from gendered pronouns and knowing it may take time for people to adjust to using Smith's preferred pronouns of "they/them," to Zane Lowe on New Music Daily

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"Soooo…apparently I'm 70 and I'm really good at doing the laundry."

- Carrie Underwood, joking about 4-year-old son Isaiah's homework which revealed that he believes she is a 70-year-old woman whose job is to wash clothes, on Instagram

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"Honestly, she is literally going to kill me but I think those feet are beautiful and I love them and I want to say happy Valentine's Day to my wife."

- John Legend, making wife Chrissy Teigen cringe with a tribute to her least favorite body part (her "perfectly unique feet"), on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

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"Best accessory is a beautiful superstar."

- B.J. Novak, sending fans into a frenzy with his sweet comment on his longtime pal and Oscar date's photo, on Instagram

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"It takes a lot of effort. But it's one example of providing an example of how things can be and telling these actresses, 'Now go off and demand this new standard.'"

- Olivia Wilde, on reimagining the way film sets can work and setting a new and more secure precedent for filming sex scenes, to Katie Couric during the 2020 Makers Conference

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"I'm so grateful I found the faith and courage to love again - because the last thing you want to do when you're crushed is love again."

- Shania Twain, on the difficult process of opening up to now-husband Frédéric Thiébaud after her ex-husband Mutt Lange allegedly had an affair with her friend (and Thiébaud's ex-wife) Marie-Anne, to PEOPLE

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"First of all the song makes no sense. There was a completely different version of the song that actually made sense and thankfully we decided to go back to the one that didn't make sense."

- The Backstreet Boys' AJ McLean, on the (lack of) meaning behind the lyrics to their hit song "I Want It That Way," on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

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"Ryan is an amazing chef AND baker. For real. Incredible. No joke."

- Eva Mendes, revealing that she got herself a husband (Ryan Gosling) who can truly do both, in an Instagram comment

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"[Shepard] was coming up the street in a car and I was driving down the street and he waved at me. And I was like, 'That's Brad Pitt!' For whatever reason, I thought he was Brad Pitt. And he rolled down the window and I was like, 'I thought you were Brad Pitt.' And he was like, 'I love you forever.' Yeah, Dax is a cute guy!"

- Lauren Graham, on mistaking her neighbor and Parenthood costar Dax Shepard for the Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood actor, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show