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Actors & Actresses
Rosie O'Donnell
"I honestly think - and I am not an expert on the amendments - I think the only people in this nation who should be allowed to own guns are police officers. I don't care if you want to hunt. I don't care if you think it's your right. I say 'sorry.' It is 1999, we have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun, I think you should go to prison."
- Quoted 4/21/99 on her own daily talkshow
Alec Baldwin
"If we were in other countries, we would... all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! No, shut up! I'm not finished! We would stone [him] to death and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families!"
- Quoted 12/11/98 on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"
Spike Lee
"Shoot Charlton Heston with a .44 Bulldog."
- Quoted when asked how best to stop gun violence in America
Woody Harrelson
"This is a racist and imperialist war [against Iraq]. The warmongers who stole the White House (you call them "hawks", but I would never disparage such a fine bird) have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist."
- Quoted 10/17/02 in the Guardian (UK)
Jessica Lange
"The atmosphere in my country is poisonous, intolerable for those of us who are not right-wing, so thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to get out for a few days,"
- Quoted 9/25/02 at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain
Edward Norton
"It's nice being in Europe this week. Almost everyone in Germany and France is in sync with the governments. I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government."
- Quoted while touring Europe promoting his film 25th Hour
Martin Sheen
"Alcoholics Anonymous and jazz are the only original things of importance."
- Quoted by the Radio Times when asked what the U.S. has exported to the rest of the world.
George Clooney
"Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's."
"I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him."
- Quoted when receiving an award from the National Board of Reviews and afterward when questioned about the remark by New York Newsday.
Janeane Garofalo
"Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, 'We're here, we're queer!' -- that's what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride."
- Quoted in Buzz magazine.
Gwyneth Paltrow
"At the moment there's a weird, over-patriotic atmosphere over there (in America) , like, "We're Number One and the rest of the world doesn't matter."
- Quoted in an interview with the World Entertainment News Network.
"Brits are far more intelligent and civilized than Americans."
- Quoted in an interview with U. K. Star Magazine.
Movie Moguls
Robert Altman
"I was over here when the election was on and I couldn't believe it -and I'm 76 years old. Then when the Supreme Court came in and turned out to be a totally political animal, the last shred of any naivete that was left in me has gone. When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke."
- Quoted 1/21/02 in an interview with the Times of London
TV Personalities
Bill Maher
"My views are not mainstream, and I could never win [an election], nor would I care to. I speak for a colony of thinkers, I would say, who think the values and perspectives of this country are askew."
- Quoted in the TV Times.
"This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists."
"I think religion is bad and drugs are good. I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun, and young people should be discouraged from voting. I think stereotypes are true, abstinence is a perversion, Bush's lies are worse than Clinton's and there's nothing sexy about being old or pregnant."
"We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not about cowardly."
- Quoted from Maher's cancelled ABC-TV show Politically Incorrect
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