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By SHARON FINK, Times Staff Writer
Published June 29, 2004
THIS MONTH'S CELEBRITY QUOTE QUIZ
1. "It's a little like being at Grandma's for dinner."
a) Ian McShane, Deadwood's Al Swearengen, revealing an interesting family dynamic while talking about the show's profanity.
b) Jim Carrey, at a tribute for Meryl Streep.
c) Chester Bennington, Linkin Park's lead singer, who had to watch his language when performing in Singapore.
2. "I'm sorry, but I just had a baby . . . and my brain cells are all coming out in my breast milk."
a) Gwyneth Paltrow, sharing too much at an awards dinner.
b) Courteney Cox Arquette, sharing too much while talking about upcoming TV projects.
c) David Arquette, Courteney's husband, sharing too much about his new-baby bonding.
3. "If they sent me a script that was better than any other script that I'd ever read and offered me a piece of Sony Corp., well, never say never."
a) Marlon Wayans, trying to prevent a White Chicks sequel.
b) Tobey Maguire, listing his small demands for doing more than three Spider-Man movies.
c) Jennifer Garner, mulling an offer to do a 13 Going On 30 sequel, 25 Going On Irrelevance to the Entertainment Industry.
4. "It's a lot easier, I think, to play characters who are psychopaths, kind of like hide behind them. It's not easy to roll over and let somebody rub your tummy."
a) Ryan Gosling, not comfortable doing love scenes in his movie The Notebook.
b) Melanie Griffith, providing an acting insight that got cut from the Inside the Actors Studio anniversary special.
c) Sean Combs, trying to present himself as a serious actor now that he has been on Broadway.
5. "And then we had to get someone in who really wanted to break their coccyx bone and would actually get paid to break their coccyx bone."
a) Alfred Molina, Spider-Man 2's villain, naming one thing he wouldn't do in the movie.
b) Kim Cattrall, admitting she did want script approval for her character in the Sex and the City movie, and for good reason.
c) Catherine Zeta-Jones, required to do a fall in The Terminal a certain number of times before a stuntwoman was brought in.
6. "When you go to the library and you finish your equation, no one applauds, you know? Also, the theater is full of lovely, vivacious young women, and the library is not."
a) Andre Braugher (Homicide, Hack), who switched to acting fro m engineering at Stanford.
b) Jake Gyllenhaal, Columbia dropout.
c) Michael Cerveris, 2004 Tony Award winner and Yale graduate.
7. "Honestly, it's not hip to like me."
a) Michael Moore, being disingenuous.
b) Britney Spears, trolling for sympathy.
c) Mandy Moore, telling the truth.
8. "Somebody said to me the other day that I was a role model for kids, and I thought, "Oh my God! These poor children!' "
a) Method Man
b) Daniel Radcliffe
c) Jon Stewart
ANSWERS: 1,c; 2,a; 3,b; 4,a; 5,c; 6,a; 7,c; 8,b.
Sharon Fink can be reached at 727 893-8525 or fink@sptimes.com
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