The week in celebrity

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"I don't want to be the pretty girl. I just want to dress up and look terrible on TV. You know, I've always wanted to be the ugly stepsister or the person with the problem." " Tracey Ullman.

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"We're talking suicidal thoughts here, we're not talking, 'I'm a little bit miserable."' " J.K. Rowling, discussing how she contemplated suicide as she suffered from depression before her rise to success.

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"I spend most of the day chasing my kids around the house. Their needs define my schedule every day." " Kevin Federline, on being a full-time dad to his two toddler sons. The aspiring rapper has had sole custody of Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 18 months, since early this year after months of bizarre behavior by his ex-wife, Britney Spears.

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"I keep hearing these stories how people turned it down a few times. I banged on their doors. 'Please let me do this show. Please! Please! Please!' It's lived up to all my expectations." " Marissa Jaret Winokur, on joining the new season of "Dancing with the Stars."

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"I tried to approach the role like (James Doohan) did. He's a Scottish engineer who works in outerspace. He's a bit of a brawler. I didn't try to facilitate change." " Simon Pegg, on his portrayal of starship Enterprise's chief engineer "Scotty" in the upcoming "Star Trek" film. Doohan played "Scotty" in the '60s TV series and in several movies.

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"The bottom line is that the documents we relied on should not have been used. We apologize both to our readers and to those referenced in the documents ... and in the story." " Russ Stanton, editor of the Los Angeles Times, apologizing for using documents that were apparently fabricated in a story implicating associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs in a 1994 assault on rapper Tupac Shakur.

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"I'm not someone who tries to play up my femininity, that's not really in my nature. Something I discovered playing this role, wearing outfits I never wore before, was that I could also be a kind of object of desire and of male fantasy, and that's not something that has ever crossed my mind." " Audrey Tautou, on her role as a glamorous gold digger in the French film "Priceless."

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