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Amy Adams, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actress for "The Fighter", said to HFPA journalists: "David O. Russell gave me a really interesting note on how to play Charlene, he had me watch Robert De Niro in RAGING BULL, and he said: I want you to have that toughness, I want to feel that at any moment you could smack somebody in the face.

Christian Bale, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actor for “The Fighter”, said to HFPA journalists: "You can very quickly get an incredibly tight bond between a mother and a son, which can start off very well, but becomes something that is a great burden upon the son; and I think that is what happened with Dicky Eklund, that there was too much expectation of him at such a young age. ".

Andrew Garfield, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actor for "The Social Network", said to HFPA journalists: "I had used Facebook before, I had my own personal account, then I realized that I was wasting a lot of time on it, actually, so I stopped. But I admire it greatly, it's a true invention of alchemy and magic, we should undoubtedly be in awe of it.

Mila Kunis, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actress for "Black Swan", said to HFPA journalists: "Going into the ballet world, I personally didn't know what to expect. I found that they are the most competitive, most brutal group of ladies I've ever met in my life, truly they are ruthless.

Melissa Leo, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actress for “The Fighter”, said to HFPA journalists: "I think that women being engaged and participating in boxing is a modern day kind of thing, that quite frankly, for my money, comes after Alice Ward's time. When she was doing it, it was strictly a men's game; so the world has come a long way.

Geoffrey Rush, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actor for "The King's Speech", said to HFPA journalists: "Director Tom Hooper said something quite wonderful, that you don't have to be a stammerer to get the theme of the film, because that is just the dramatic device. The metaphor is: How do we find our better selves? That should be our life's goal, and falling short of that is what keeps us human, because unless you're Gandhi or a Tibetan Buddhist monk, I don’t think you ever reach a state of complete perfect being.

Jeremy Renner, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actor for “The Town”, said to HFPA journalists about his director: "Ben Affleck is a man who is without ego, as smart and as charming as they come. He made me want to be the best I could be for his movie and he gave me every resource I needed to do the job.

Michael Douglas, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actor for "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps", said to HFPA journalists: "If I look at this picture, to me it's almost like an operetta, on a larger than life stage, it’s wonderfully dramatic and surprisingly shows a lot of heart, compared to most of Oliver Stone's pictures. And with everybody screwing everybody else in this picture, my daughter included, I'd like to believe that there is a positive and hopeful ending.

Helena Bonham Carter, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actress for “The King's Speech”, said to HFPA journalists: ""Everyone's got an opinion about the Queen Mother, because she's so well known, but my job I guess was to get beneath her public front of amazing sweetness, because underneath she was a very powerful and strong woman. Royal photographer Cecil Beaton described her as a marshmallow, but made with a welding machine, and I felt like I wanted to capture that duality.

Ricky Gervais will use his trip to next month's Golden Globes to fit in some movie work as well. The British comedian, who will be hosting the awards show for the second year running, will shoot a walk-on part in Disney's new Muppets movie the day before the show.