Ben Affleck
"The Bush Adminstration has continued to push a dangerous right-wing agenda which has included increasing encroachment on civil liberties, particularly with the questionable and aggressive use of The Patriot Act..."
-Quoted while addressing "People for the American Way"
Ed Harris
"Being a man, I have got to say that we got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity. He's a good old boy, he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup. That is not the definition of a man, God dammit!"
- Quoted 1/21/03 during the NARAL's 30th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade in Washington, D.C.
John Cusack
"Bush means Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and all these [bleeping] crypto-fascists are gonna get in and start carving up the pie and handing in all their markers to the Republican Party that's been itching to get back into power,"
"Of course it's okay for you to have everything fall apart," [Cusack says about Nader's showbiz supporters.] "But a lot of people have to deal with the world the way it is, and it would have been a lot less brutal for some people with [Al] Gore than it will be now under Bush. ... I'm not saying I loved Gore. But I'm saying I don't want that [bleep] Bush in the White House."
- Quoted in June 2002 issue of Details magazine
Julia Roberts
"He's embarrassing. He's not my president. He [Bush] will never be my president"
"Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant... I looked up Democrat. It's of the people, by the people, for the people."
Barbra Streisand
'It has long been understood that the only way to create a fair society is to give each child an equal chance at success ... The Bush administration understands this rhetoric, and even stole the Children Defense Fund's "Leave No Child Behind" motto for last year's education bill. However, as the Children Defense Fund's website points out, Bush's policies would more appropriately be entitled, "Leave No Millionaire Behind." Bush has done more than any president in our history to ensure that poor children never rise out of poverty.'
- Quoted 1/13/03 from Barbra Streisand's News & Statements
"[There are] psycho-social reasons relating to Bush's decision to invade Iraq: a long-standing father and son competition based on feelings of jealousy and inadequacy... In invading Iraq, Bush saw the opportunity to emerge from his father's shadow and no longer be seen as the perpetual underachiever who consistently failed under the watchful eye of his accomplished father."
- Quoted from Barbra Streisand's News & Statements
Jessica Lange
"I hate Bush. I despise him and his entire administration. Not only because of it's international policy, but also the national. Today it makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States, it is humiliating."
- Quoted 9/25/02 at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain
Robert Redford
"The early signs are this [Bush] administration could go further, shutting down information, not allowing certain truths to get out." Then he added, "And all you've got to do is look at history to see what that led to. The McCarthy era."
- Quoted while speaking at the Sundance Film Festival
Dustin Hoffman
"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that [Bush] administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible."
- Quoted at the Empire Film Awards
Martin Sheen
"George W. Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
- Quoted by the Radio Times while in England.
Julia Stiles
"I was worried that some soldiers over in Iraq who are actually younger than I am would see some salacious report on MSNBC and think that I was attacking them and not the government that put them there. And I was afraid that Bill O'Reilly would come and, with a shotgun at my front door, and shoot me for being unpatriotic. But I decided that that's actually, that fear that was silencing me is actually why it's so important that MoveOn exist and do this ad contest ... ."
-Quoted while addressing a conference sponsered by MoveOn.org, whose website featured ads comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler.
Gwyneth Paltrow
"I think George Bush is such an embarrassment to America in the way that he doesn't take the rest of the world into consideration.
...it all seems to be for him and his friends to keep getting richer at the expense of a nation, at the expense of the environment. It's like a full-scale assault on the environment."
- Quoted during an interview with the World Entertainment News Network.
Movie Moguls
Robert Altman
"This present government in America I just find disgusting, the idea that George Bush could run a baseball team successfully -he can't even speak! I just find him an embarrassment."
- Quoted 1/21/02 in an interview with the Times of London
