"I've signed Meg Ryan's autograph more times than I've signed my own. If anyone comes up and says Sleepless in Seattle is their favourite, I just sign Meg Ryan."
Melanie Griffith (pictured), actor
"I'm sorry. I don't talk to journalists."
Peter Mandelson, MP
"Oskar Lafontaine has been the grit in the German oyster."
John Major, former prime minister
"A lady of 92 left a message asking that I call her to suggest how she should replan her evening viewing now News at Ten had gone."
Trevor McDonald, newsreader
"I didn't spend 10 years of hard labour creating a government, to knock it down."
Charles Whelan, former press secretary to Gordon Brown
"What fascinates me is how people stay married for so long. I'm lucky if I can maintain a relationship for 20 minutes."
Julian Clary, actor
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