Much like New Year's Eve, it'll be a night which ends with a lot of drunk, disappointed people swearing they'll do better next year.

COMEDIAN CHRIS ROCK on hosting this year's Oscars

As girls, we are taught that someone is going to bring us our happiness. I was waiting for Prince Charming. Everybody I met was going to be the guy I was going to spend my life with. And then you realise, 'I'm strong, I'm my own keeper, my own saviour.'

THRICE-DIVORCED SINGER JENNIFER LOPEZ

The thing about ageing is that the good stuff happens where you can't see it. The bad stuff happens where you can.

SINGER KIM WILDE, 55