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‘‘I worked with George Clooney on a sitcom in the 1980s. He asked me out and I said ‘no’. I sob when I recall it.’’ – Australian author Kathy Lette’s one that got away. ‘‘It’s pretty much like when Joe Pesci threw me down the stairs in you just kinda get at the top of the stairs and suck it up . . . I said, ‘You’re just getting a little tap on the face, honey. Let’s go!’’’ – Sharon Stone jokes about her slapping scene with movie daughter Amanda Seyfried in the Linda Lovelace biopic Lovelace. ‘‘You know they – Google or whoever – they’re at this place where facerecognition software is at 84-94 per cent. Soon you’ll be able to walk into a bar and look around and your glasses will tell you who everybody is. So, yeah, it’s going to get weird. And some of it’s certainly creepy. But exciting. I think it’s an incredible thing.’’ – Actor Matt Damon can’t wait to see what the future holds for new technology. ‘‘I know I can’t drink vodka; I’m physically, like, allergic to it . . . I end up in rehab and jail . . . and rightfully so.’’ – Lindsay Lohan pokes fun at her alcohol issues as the guest host of US talk show Chelsea Lately. The actress has just completed a 90-day, courtordered stint in rehab. ‘‘I have never seen a pornographic film.’’ – Actress Sharon Stone was unfamiliar with the graphic nature of adult movies before signing up to portray Linda Lovelace’s mother in the new biopic of the porn star-turnedfeminist. ‘‘I really want him to win. He should. It’s just such a great story and given his recent years . . . to whoop cancer’s ass and then do that; he should have some kind of trophy, right?’’ – Matt Damon will be cheering for his Behind the Candelabra co-star Michael Douglas at the Emmy Awards. ‘‘The men I have gone for are challenging, yes, but they are also wildly intelligent and poetic.’’ – Pop star Katy Perry, formerly married to Russell Brand. ‘‘I would have my glass of wine and he would have his usual. I have no idea what it was but it looked like nuclear waste.’’ – Actor Johnny Depp on having a drink with Rolling Stone Keith Richards. ‘‘Michelle Pfeiffer and I once wanted to go dancing and we went to this club and we sat at the table for 15 minutes and no-one came up (to us).’’ – Cher recalls a night out with actress Pfeiffer that turned into a disaster. ‘‘I tell myself I did not get hired because I look like a fork-lift (truck).’’ ‘‘I don’t have to have hamburger to know that I have filet mignon at home.’’ ‘‘To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.’’ – Leo Tolstoy. ‘‘One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.’’ – Plato. ‘‘Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.’’ – Don Marquis. ‘‘The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.’’ – Bertrand Russell. ‘‘To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.’’ – Helen Keller. ‘‘There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.’’ – Frank Zappa. ‘‘Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.’’ – Pete Seeger. ‘‘I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I’m upside down.’’ – Mitch Hedberg