“It’s awkward. It’s awkward because I still love him [Chris Brown]… My stomach drops and I have to maintain this poker face and not let it get to the outer part of me. I have to maintain that and suppress it”— Rihanna, youtube.com
“I don’t want that moment [the divorce with Tom Cruise] in my life to define me, to be who I am. I don’t want that to be what I’m known as. I was an actor before, an actor during and an actor now.”— Katie Holmes, people.com
“We [Bruce Jenner] have children together, and we have families and memories and holidays and traditions. I don't want to give that up. I don't want him to take that away from me, and I don't want to take that away from him. We work together to make sure that we're both happy. We are well-rounded hum…”— Kris Jenner, people.com
“Imagine spreading everything you care about on a blanket and then tossing the whole thing up in the air. The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.co.uk
“[On Jennifer Lopez] I think I just ran away. You can only handle so much. I moved for a while to this place in Georgia that I have, was able to get away, by and large, from stuff. Come up with a plan for how to do something with my life that doesn't put me in the crosshairs of this sort of thing.”— Ben Affleck, gq.com
“[On Miley Cyrus] Of course it was hard, man. But at the time we were going in different directions and it's just what needed to happen. We were both super young and it was a good decision at the time—we both needed that.”— Liam Hemsworth, gq.com.au
“[On Liam Hemsworth] I was so scared of ever being alone, and I think, conquering that fear, this year, was actually bigger than any other transition that I had, this entire year... I don’t ever want to have to need someone again, where you feel like, without them, you can’t be yourself.”— Miley Cyrus, abcnews.go.com
“We [Britney] were two birds of the same feather — small-town kids, doing the same thing. Then you become adults, and the way you were as kids doesn’t make any sense. We spent way too much time being the biggest thing for teenyboppers.”— Justin Timberlake, vanityfair.com
“I think I married for the wrong reasons... Instead of following my heart and doing something that made me really happy, I just did it for the idea of everything.”— Britney Spears, amazon.com
“You see a lot of people play this blame game. Blame, blame, blame. You know? And it's a really easy thing to do, and I'm certainly guilty of it. [You have to] look at yourself and go, 'What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility?' And that's the painful work that you…”— Reese Witherspoon, elle.com
“[On divorce from Ryan Philippe] Very humiliating and very isolating...But, by the way, if it's not painful, maybe it wasn't the right decision to marry to begin with. Those are the appropriate emotions. When people get in your face and say, 'This will pass,' you think, Are they crazy? I'm never gonn…”— Reese Witherspoon, elle.com
“[Divorce was] the darkest, saddest place I had ever been. It was a struggle—there were a good four or five months of not being able to get out of bed. It was the worst time in my life. You get through it. It’s a process that’s not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.”— Ryan Phillippe, wmagazine.com
“With divorce, you are one person before, and you have to figure out how to be another person after. Forget about whether your marriage works. You're losing your family. And women often blame themselves... At least that you have control over. People who blame everybody else, they don't realize doing…”— Uma Thurman, redbookmag.com
“When I was first going through my separation, someone said to me, "It will take you half as long as you were in the relationship before you'll feel better." And I wanted to knock them out cold across the table. Because, of course, I was in agony. And the last thing I wanted to think was that I was g…”— Uma Thurman, redbookmag.com
“[On divorce with Tom Cruise] I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'”— Nicole Kidman, mindbodygreen.com
“Look, the marriage [with Tom Cruise] was real. The marriage existed because it was two people in love. It’s that simple. They’ve said I’m gay, they’ve said everyone’s gay. I personally don’t believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That’s what he wants to do, that’s what he’s going…”— Nicole Kidman, vanityfair.com
“[On Johnny Depp] Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life. Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.”— Vanessa Paradis, harpersbazaar.com
“[On Nick Lachey divorce] It was hard to imagine I would ever walk down the aisle again. It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself. Once you do that, you feel complete—and that's the only time y…”— Jessica Simpson, glamour.com
“[How do you feel being single?] It's what life handed me, and I'm OK with it. I know wholeheartedly that I'm a really good partner. I think I'm a really good girlfriend, and I think that I could be a really good wife. I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is some…”— Jennifer Love-Hewitt, usatoday30.usatoday.com