We have compiled other public and private statements made by the stars and will continue to add to the list as we get them.

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SHERYL CROWE
"I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is not to have enemies."

BONO
"I think America has no experience with terrorism or even with war. In Europe, we know a little more about theses things."

DAVE MATTHEWS
"I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration."

ARMIN SHIMERMAN ("Deep Space Nine," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
"I have signed petitions with Mike Farrell about not going to war with Iraq. We are all involved in a very dangerous time and need to be more watchful than ever before. We must read, we must think, we must act."

TIM ROBBINS
"A chill wind is blowing in this nation," Robbins says as his wife Susan Sarandon's fundraiser was canceled, as was a celebration of her and her partner Robbins' film "Bull Durham" at the Baseball Hall of Fame. The president of the museum, who worked in the Reagan White House, decided their views might endanger American troops.

GENE SIMMONS, Kiss
"If you don't have the guts to stand up to injustice, where ever it exists (and that means stopping the Germans, the Japanese and the Italians in WWI and WWII or the Albanian Serbs in Bosnia .or the tragedies that keep on occurring in Africa ... the list goes on and on ... One thing in common with all these events: AMERICA. America didn't stay and conquer ANY OF THESE COUNTRIES."
"[I am]ashamed to be surrounded by people calling themselves Liberal who are, in my opinion, spitting on the graves of brave American soldiers who gave their life to fight a war that wasn't theirs ... in a country they've never been to ... simply to liberate the people therein.">

JAMES WOODS
"Shame on Michael Moore for what he did at the Academy Awards, shame on you, Michael. I am a Democrat, I'm not conservative, but I am not stupid. I think he's a coward. We should try to listen to each other, but Michael Moore had bad taste and bad timing."

CHRISSIE HYNDE, The Pretenders
"We deserve to get bombed, bring it on."

BRITTANY MURPHY
"Thank you to the troops and their families."

JENNIFER ANISTON
"President Bush is a ----ing idiot!"

BRAD PITT
"We can't go back now. We're in this together as Americans. We're going to have to go in and get the job done as soon as possible. Why attack now? I wonder that, but I respect [President Bush] for pushing the issue, so people were forced to take a stand."

BARBRA STREISAND
"The Bush administration thinks they can fool us into thinking they have the terrorism situation under control by going after Saddam, when all they are doing is exacerbating the problem by creating more outrage against the United States from potential terrorists."
"I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable -- and very, very frightening," the singer and actress told the Democratic party fundraiser in Hollywood.

TRAVIS TRITT
"To be a good American, no matter what side you're on, you have to get behind President Bush. More important, you have to get behind the troops!"

CHRIS ROCK to Zap2it
"We should avoid war at all costs. I don't understand war in many ways. Condalezza Rice and Colin Powell are the black people in the White House, they are right there, it's just that somebody has got to take the seat. Negative people got to be positive role models, Osama Bin Ladin's got to be a positive role model."

BERNIE MAC to Zap2it
"I'm a storyteller not a politician, politics is something I can't deal with, I would resign if I was president. I've got nieces, nephews and cousins to come home to that need my attention, I'm a clown, a comedian and I love to laugh. I tell my family the truth -- the world owes you nothing -- you owe the world."

LYNN WHITFIELD to Zap2it
"It is important to be able to laugh through issues and be provoked to look at something...This is a wonderful time for people to laugh and think."

NICOLE KIDMAN at the Oscars
"I did have to grapple with the idea of whether this was frivolity or something and there is the essence of frivolity when there are far more serious things going on in the world, but this is an important part of our lives."

MARTIN SHEEN
"War is a reflection of despair and I refuse to accept despair -- we are called to be peacemakers."

HEATH LEDGER
"I think John 'Coward' should just grow up. He's so subservient to this guy [Bush] and they're sending 250,000 troups over there. Why should we send our 2,000, it makes no difference."

MATT LEBLANC to Zap2it
"The people that are making those decision are far more informed than I am. I think that they -- [and] this may be perceived by some as blind faith -- are right, and I believe in our system, I believe in our president, and I believe in our government, and I think if there's some f---ing psycho out there arming and getting ready and absolutely flat-out breaking his word he's given to the rest of the world, not just the United States, but the rest of the world, the rest of the world doesn't have the ...b---, well, I'm just an actor. I believe in our country."

GEORGE CLOONEY to Zap2it
"What I'm not seeing about this is the debate. In a democracy before we do something like this there's usually a debate about it. I believe [the president] thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore, we can't beat anyone anymore."

BARRY PEPPER to Zap2it
"We're going to send our boys and girls overseas to kill -- and that's pretty sad."

DUSTIN HOFFMAN to Zap2it
"I'm not anti-American but I am against the current administration's policy, it's rather scary isn't it? If there is no direct threat why are we invading?"
"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think thats reprehensible. I believe, though I may wrong because I am no expert, that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil."

GABRIEL BYRNE to Zap2it
"What's happening in reality is far more scary than any Hitchcock film where someone's turning the knob and going into a scary room. We are being led by fear, we're not listening to what we're being told. The same culture that made those scary movies is the same culture that believes it's OK to drop bombs on innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq."
"These are the same people who believed Orson Welles when he said the world was being attacked by Martians (when reading "War of the Worlds" on the radio). We are creating the birth of nuclear terrorism and we know what will happen. We are allowing ourselves to be manipulated by what we are told so we can justify spending $400 billion to drop bombs on innocent women and children."
With tears in his eyes, the actor says, "Nuclear terrorism could be the end of the planet. What's happening in American today is terrifying, for the world. People know that if you attack them then they will target you for attack, why not try negotiation? I believe in peace and non-violence. Why do we believe we think our society will last for ever, it didn't happen to the Greeks, the Romans, why us?"
"Osama Bin Laden has a beard in a face, that's who we're supposed to be after, how do we explain this insanity to Iraqi mothers? Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, so if we offer a hand of peace we get a hand of peace. This war is about fear and greed."

JAKE GYLLENHAAL to Zap2it
"We have to say 'stop', there's no reason for a war. At the moment Hussein is not threatening anybody."

RZA the rapper, to Zap2it
"If they're going to make more missiles, then it needs to be stopped, but violence begets violence, I really believe that."

JESSICA LANGE
"I am speaking not as an actress, but as a mother from the Midwest. I do not want to go to war for my children, and the legacy we leave them."

JENNIFER BEALS to Zap2it
"I haven't talked about this very much, but my husband and I were supposed to be at Windows of the World that morning at the top of the World Trade Center. The night before he said, 'Should we set the alarm?' and I said, 'No, I'll wake up.' And I woke up at 7 a.m. I noticed his suit was on the floor and he is such an organized person. I looked at him; he was sleeping so solemnly that I thought he works so hard I'll just let him sleep."
"I hate what's going on in the world right now, but part of me thinks it's all about fate."

BEASTIE BOYS, ADAM YAUCH
"I think a big part of wanting to do (the anti-war song "In a World Gone Mad") was just hearing Bush making these speeches, seeing how the rest of the world was reacting to it and feeling like Bush doesn't represent us. One of the purposes is to let people in other parts of the world know that the messages he's sending out aren't necessarily the view of all Americans."

"Now how many people must get killed?" begins the latest antiwar refrain from the pop world. "For oil families' pockets to get filled?"
-- The song is "In a World Gone Mad,"

JEAN RENO, famed French actor, to Zap2it
"Now, they are writing books saying why French don't like Americans. We do not like Americans because they were part of coalition in a sense. People have to describe how the situation is really. How it is in Iraq and things like that ... who's going to fight the Americans? You want the power ... you have the power, the capacity ... that's why you are being criticized."

JEANNE MOREAU, famed French actress, to Zap2it
"We're all concerned, all the world, you know? The French don't hate the Americans. I was a little girl when the last war was on, and therefore I have a certain knowledge about devastation and terror."

LESLIE CARON, Oscar nominated French actress, to Zap2it
"Some people in this world prefer violence, war, assassination. It's terrible, it's unbelievable. Try to tell Ireland and Britain, Palestine and Israel, 'Listen, just stop, put your arms apart and start working together, and you'll find happiness and money and -- happiness!' But they don't. They prefer -- they prefer to fight."
"War needs women, too, women have favored war at different times in history. But when you have lived through a few wars, you realize it's no use getting very excited about political incidents, because you know that 10 years later, they are going to see the light, the penny will drop, and they'll see that it's far more pleasant to have peace and to be successful, to make money, to live, to raise children, to have a good time -- like us with the Germans in France -- (laughs). History does repeat itself, and people don't learn the lesson, but they have to go through war before they will learn how to live peacefully. It's terrible."

HELENA BONHAM-CARTER to Zap2it
"I'm just bewildered and puzzled still. On the uptake, I can't quite believe it if we really do. I don't think they support it, I think it's a feeling of bewilderment like, huh? What are we doing? And how did this happen? [There's] a feeling of not really being convinced of any proper reason for going to war with Iraq, of all people."

ELIZABETH BERKLEY to Zap2it
"Everything seems kind of turbulent, you kind of feel guilty for not doing anything. There is nowhere to retreat."

NICOLAS CAGE to Zap2it
"I was raised to try to keep my political views to myself. I'm not a politician, I have my personal opinions, but I try to express myself through my work. I have to say I don't like the idea of women and children dying, but that's all I'm going to say about it."

JASON LEE to Zap2it
"People should be entitled to say what they feel no matter what and those actors who chose to speak out, that's their right."

GILBERT CATES, producer of the Academy Awards to Zap2it
"When someone is a presenter on the show, they make an agreement with me as the producer that they represent the awards. We write the text for them, give them the script, they makes notes, changes, etc., etc. and that's their job. If someone as a presenter were to change what they had agreed to, I think it would be a violation of the relationship we have with them. With regards to the winner of the Oscar, it's their 45 seconds, I would prefer that they talk about the award that they've won -- that's why we've come here to celebrate excellence, but hey, if they want to say anything else, it's their time and it is a free country."

SALMA HAYEK to Zap2it
"I just hope if anything happens, and God forbid it does, but that it's over soon and everyone is back soon."

MORGAN FREEMAN to Zap2it
"Of course I'm against war, aren't you against war? We should all stand up and say something about it, not just me. And I don't for one minute believe that actors are being hurt for speaking out against it."

KEVIN KLINE to Zap2it
"I'm concerned what's happening in our world, but I'm not sure that anything I say or think will change things."

JANEANNE GAROFALO to Zap2it
"No one is an apologist for Saddam Hussein. It's just that there's no link between Iraq and 9/11 or Iraq and Al Qaeda. I'm just a citizen who happens to choose entertainment as a career. This will be a disaster."
- On CNN: "We have a right to do THAT to a country that has done nothing yet to us? They have actors on so they can marginalize the movement. It's much easier to toss it off as some bizarre, unintelligent special-interest group. If you're an actor who is pro-war, you're a hero. If you're an actor who's against the war, you're suspect. You must have a weird angle or you just hate George Bush. This is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area."

MARTIN SCORSESE to Zap2it
"It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut."

BILL MAHER
"I am for the use of force, but not in the way we're doing it. I think the war on terrorism is compromised by politics domestically, but I do have confidence that whatever we get into overseas, we will prevail, because we have a kick-a-- military."
"President Bush is wrong-headed in a lot of things, but he does want to act and be pro-active about this war, at least overseas, and that is the right approach. You have to take it to them. I'm not sure that Iraq is the place to do that, but at least they are pro-active."
"Hussein is not crazy, he's just evil, there's a difference."

JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME
"Americans need to know that there are Hollywood stars who support President George Bush and believe he's doing the right thing by confronting Saddam Hussein. Those protesting (the war) are part of the axis of ignorance."

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER to Zap2it
"People want to see positive movies where the terrorists get their ass kicked in the end, where there's a positive outcome of good over evil, because in real life it's not as clear cut. We are still struggling with trying to find those characters. We have done a great job, but it's still not resolved after all these months. In movies you can resolve those things much quicker and get satisfaction, at least in a fantasy way."

JOHN C. REILLY to Zap2it
"I just got into the Academy, I'm not going to go instructing people how they should vote. I think that might be a little presumptuous of me. I think it's up to each individual whether they feel that it's in their personal makeup to be a spokesman for a political point of view. Some people are very private -- when you go in the voter booth and close the curtain behind you, in some ways your political beliefs are your business, so I'm not going to give advice to anybody about that stuff. The strongest way to make your voice heard in this country is to vote."

SHIRLEY JONES
"It's astonishing to see how many of these Hollywood big-wigs are trying to undermine President Bush."

RON SILVER, "The West Wing"
"Saddam Hussein is out to hurt us, and he will if he has the opportunity. The inspectors will be fooled again. I believe when we're done over there we'll find French mechanical parts all over the place, because they were violating sanctions. I know I don't have a popular stand in Hollywood."

JOHN TRAVOLTA
"We need to do something, and I think we need to go in."

BRUCE WILLIS
"I thought about signing up, but I was told I was too old. I called the White House to see what could I do."

KID ROCK
"We got to kill him, slit his throat."

FRED THOMPSON, "Law and Order"
"Thank goodness we have a president with the courage to protect our country."

HARRISON FORD
"I'm appalled by the idea that (anyone) might think I support a war."

SPIKE LEE
"When you think about it, the German and French governments should be commended. Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain. It's ludicrous to expect the whole world to follow what they want. America doesn't have the moral right to tell other people what to do. To say the whole world has to fall into line is you-know-what. I hope more people will rise up."

ROBERT REDFORD
"I want to lend my voice to the peace movement, but I do not want it to be interpreted that I'm speaking out against my country or that I'm criticizing America."

ROSARIO DAWSON
"I'm frightened by the patriotic mood sweeping the United States. Any dissenting opinion is considered unpatriotic. It makes me upset. I'm embarrassed. It's my hope that Americans won't jump on anyone having a dissenting opinion."

EDWARD NORTON
"I hope the world community will continue to voice itself and apply pressure on the U.S. government. American citizens have to do it too. It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. There aren't enough rational steps. Almost everyone in Germany and France is in sync with the governments. I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government."

PHILLIP NOYCE Australian director to Zap2it
"I'm not American, but I felt violated when September 11 happened, and now, I live in America."

RICHARD GERE
""America has never paid any attention to other people. Bush's plans for war are a bizarre bad dream. There doesn't appear to be any sort of basis for any of this. I have a feeling something hidden is at work here that will someday see the light of day. I keep asking myself where all this personal enmity between George Bush and Saddam Hussein comes from. It's like the story of Captain Ahab and the great white whale from Moby Dick. We have to say stop, there's no reason for war."

SEAN PENN on CNN after three days in Iraq and meeting 90 minutes with Tariq Aziz
"There is an incredible fear, dissent is so costly. We have a limited perception of the country from the media. The bias never made sense to me. Hussein is a vicious tyrant, ... he belongs in the meat grinder. Actors speaking out give an air of buffoonery."

TOBY STEPHENS, the bad guy in "Die Another Day" to Zap2it
"It's a strange time. The North Korean people do nice things like have a football match between North and South Koreans, or they're putting a train track between the DMZ, but they do something like that and now they say they have nuclear weapons. So it's strange that it happened just as this was cranking up. Maybe they heard that the Bond film was coming out."

HARRY BELAFONTE
"The [Bush] administration is possessed of evil."

ELIZABETH TAYLOR on CNN's "Larry King Live"
"I don't want to go to war. I don't believe with his [George Bush's] politics. I'm thankful about what he said about AIDS, however."

DANNY GLOVER to Zap2it
"The war? I don't think I want to talk about the war. I'm a man who talks about peace. I've talked about peace all of my life ... Often when we don't allow ourselves to understand our own truth, we have a different perception of the other people around us. Because we are unable to understand their truth, and allow ourselves to understand that truth. Those are the kind of things I struggle for, and struggle to try to talk about? How can we talk about issues around democracy, real democracy? Those are the kinds of things I want to talk about. And peace. How can we talk about peace?"

MICHAEL CAINE to Zap2it
"I think if I look at my trip to Vietnam [for "The Quiet American"] there are fascinating analogies [with the situation over Iraq], because everything I thought about Vietnam was misconception. I thought I was going to an ugly, war torn place. Nothing war torn about it, it is one of the most beautiful countries I have ever been to. I thought I was going to a country of angry people. I found out they are very happy, wonderful people. To them, I look like an American. So I thought that they would hate me or make some comments. I never heard a negative term. We should learn from that."

LAWRENCE GUTERMAN, director of "Cats and Dogs" to Zap2it
"There's sort of a Cold War analogy to 'Cats & Dog' you see. When they go to the U.N., they have the debate about whether it's better to sacrifice the few for the many. So they're not completely guiltless in the whole thing. Also, Mister Tinkles is a rogue, you know, he's part of a splinter faction. He's not exactly representative of all factions. I mean, in this case the dogs turn out to be the good guys, but it's not an indictment of all of catdom."

JEFF GOLDBLUM from the NBC movie "War Stories" in which he plays a newspaper war correspondent to Zap2it
"The entertainment industry is criticizing the administration? I don't think it was intended as a criticism of the administration. That's my view. Are you asking what I think of Iraq and what I think we should do?"
"I don't know, I have feelings and convictions about it that are evolving and changing and if I seem a little wishy-washy, I loathe to -- you don't need a goofball like me to add to the general debate." "It's a very serious issue, ... I have a built-in, my nature has a built-in skepticism and mistrust of politics, of politicians, of any administration, one side or another, and of the information that comes from the military, even as I'm eager to get to the truth."
"America someday is going to be gone, and everything's going to be gone, I hate to tell you. That's what I glean. But through that all, there is something that binds us, that is essentially who we are underneath that, that is eternal and infinite."
"And if through our playfulness and entertainments, if we can contribute to the general quotient of that and soulfulness, that's what I hope."

WHAT THE COMEDIANS SAY...
Yes, there's even a lighter side to war, here are a few comments from the comedians.

JAY LENO
"War continues in Iraq. They're calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were going to call it Operation Iraqi Liberation until they realized that spells 'OIL.'"

JON STEWART
"Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain."

CRAIG KILBORN
"Good news for Iraq. There's a 50 percent chance that President Bush will confuse it with Iran."

DAVID LETTERMAN
"President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either."

CONAN O'BRIEN
"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He is French, people."