Random Quotes

Jane Seymour (CBS' Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) ''There's Something About Mary. I don't remember ever laughing so loudly.''

Helena Bonham Carter (The Theory of Flight) ''The Bob Fosse show [Fosse: A Celebration in Song and Dance] was fantastic.''

Alicia Witt (Urban Legend) ''Sarah McLachlan's 'Adia.' While we were filming Urban Legend, I listened to it over and over. Years from now when I hear it, I'll think of 1998.''

Chuck D (Public Enemy) ''The Smokin' Grooves tour. It was the first time three generations of hip-hop came together under one roof. It was a beautiful thing.''

Christina Ricci (The Opposite of Sex) ''Liz Phair's new album because she's just so perfectly girlish. It's girl angst summed up in beautiful music and humor.''

William Shatner (Free Enterprise) ''The furor over the Clinton/Lewinsky matter''

Stewart Copeland (The Police) ''The Lewinsky tapes''

Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: Insurrection) ''Bill and Monica. It's hard to think of anything other than that.''

Steven Spielberg (director, Saving Private Ryan) ''What best summarizes the year is [that] the litany of media noise about the Washington scandal drove us into movie theaters, instead of watching television. We saw a lot of pictures this year.''

Kevin Richardson (Backstreet Boys) ''Bill Clinton. 'Nuff said.''

Joan Oosborne (singer) ''The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill''

Vince Vaughn (Psycho) ''Probably The McLaughlin Group''

Ben Affleck (Shakespeare in Love) ''Life Is Beautiful. It was able to make me care about history and the world in a way I hadn't thought of before. It was also emblematic of the Holocaust — how it could be portrayed in a kind of fable-esque way. It was oddly sweet and light.''

Jon Favreau (Very Bad Things) ''America's Funniest Police Chases''

Kirsten Dunst (Small Soldiers) ''Night by Elie Wiesel. I'm filming a movie about the Holocaust in Lithuania and the book is furthering my understanding of what it must have been like.''

Lara Flynn Boyle (ABC's The Practice) ''Working with David Kelley and Todd Solondz [director of Happiness].''

Gene Hackman (Enemy of the State) ''I finally finished writing my novel. Personally, that was what summed up 1998.''

Harry Knowles (online gossip-monger) ''The Prince of Egypt. It's astounding. It's going to change the way animation is made.''

F. Gary Gray (director, The Negotiator) ''Out of Sight was great. It personified where we should be — it took the kind of risks I think we should take with film.''

Rob Zombie (lead singer, White Zombie) ''Everything sucked except the reissues of old movies in deluxe digitally enhanced wide-screen technology. I'll take anything from Planet of the Apes to The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires.''

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (A Bug's Life) ''I don't know. What has happened this year?''