Go ahead quote me

Kate Walsh.
Robert Downey Jr.
Mariah Carey.

"When I was a kid, I didn't want to eat vegetables. The first vegetable I ate was a sweet potato because my mum told me it was candy. She'd bake it and put brown sugar and butter on it, so, 'This is candy!' So I'm totally into it."

- ACTRESS KATE WALSH


"It was beautiful. I was either in a lovely, sprawling rented home or an air-conditioned helicopter and once the helmet closes, I'm outta there."

- IRON MAN STAR ROBERT DOWNEY JR, who had no problems filming Captain America: Civil War in steamy Atlanta, Georgia, in summer because he did not have to be on set much


"When I'm home, they just want to be with me. I'll often take a bath in a bathing suit, knowing that I'm going to have to let them in."

- SINGER MARIAH CAREY, who does not want her twins to see her naked in the bathtub

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on November 30, 2015, with the headline Go ahead quote me. Subscribe