01/31/07 - Snoop Dogg " I'm a leader "

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"I had a conversation with Minister Farrakhan, and he gave me some instructions on what I am and who I am. I'm a leader. I'm a prophet. I didn't know that until he told me." Snoop Dogg is inspired by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's wise words.

"The rest of the band are a bit younger than me, so they look alright. Then, in the middle of them, you just see this terrible rouged prostitute." Hugh Grant is convinced he looks terrible as an 80s pop star in new movie Music & Lyrics.

"I'm very girlie and very vain... I am, I love clothes and everything." Oscar nominee Dame Helen Mirren on her struggle to play frumpy Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen.

"To have a six-pack like that at that age, when some people try for 25 years to get one... We were gobsmacked at how suddenly he turned into this swan." Theatre producer David Pugh is amazed with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe's transformation from bespectacled boy wizard to toned hunk for new play Equus, in which he'll bare all on the London stage.

"When I put weight on, it doesn't go to my ass or thighs. It goes straight to my boobs." Actress Eva Mendes makes women everywhere green with envy.

"We had a show in Rome where I threw a chair. I tossed it out (into the crowd) like a towel. But it didn't hit anybody." Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando has become a rock wildman.

"Have more sex. It keeps me fit." Actor Billy Zane's fiancee Kelly Brook gives fitness advice to those wanting a trimmer figure.

"She was a fantastic woman." Billy Bob Thornton pays tribute to his former mother-in-law, Angelina Jolie's mom Marcheline Bertrand, who lost her cancer battle at the weekend.