10 Reunion Portraits: Then and Now

Garber: ''J.J. Abrams put together this group of people —''
Garner: ''Who love each other.''
Garber: ''— who are still in contact and love each other and take care of each other.''
Garner: ''All of us, all the time. Not just Victor and me. We could have a room full of us.''

''Alias changed my life. It gave me a television career, it gave me money to buy an apartment, which I'd never had. And it introduced me to people who are a part of my life. So thank you, J.J.'' —Garber

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''On our days off, we were together, because we really had no one else. We didn't know anyone in New Zealand. So Saturday morning came around, and we'd go for brunch and then we'd just hang out all day, whether that was surfing or buying records or buying clothes or seeing some girls around Wellington.'' —Monaghan, talking about spending time with Wood, Astin, and Boyd.

''Those were formative years. At 18, one would normally be going to university, or if there was a war, you'd be going to fight for your country. That's the time when you become a man. So for The Lord of the Rings to fit into that time period was so perfect. It exemplified a lot of those coming-of-age experiences for all of us. When people ask me about the movies, I don't really think about the movies. I think about the experiences making them, and I think about the relationships we all had and the growth that we all went through.'' —Elijah Wood

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''All of us [had to look up cultural references in the script], because if you hadn't read the complete New York Times on Sunday, you'd come [in] Monday morning, and there would be a lot of stuff you wouldn't recognize.'' —Graham

Lauren: ''We are, like, the worst people to have a reunion interview because we don't remember anything. I mean, anything. People come up and they're like, 'Oh remember, I played the real estate agent in the episode...' And I'm like, I have no idea. I have no recollection. It was a lot.''
Alexis: ''Because it was such dense language and we had long days, and it was, I think, overwhelming in a way at the time, to the point where we don't have really clear memories of certain portions of taping the show. It was just kind of a big blur.''

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They met and clicked at the auditions for the show, even though she thought he was hitting on her as they left. ''It was so clear that she was Maggie,'' he says.

''We had some good kisses.'' —Morrow, on his favorite moments from the show

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Cryer: ''There was a time when [my hair] rose several feet off my head, but that time is no more.''
Potts: ''I had the same thing.''
Cryer: ''That's true! Yeah! Yours was actually like a foot and a half.''
Potts: ''At our age it's better to just get rid of it.''
Ringwald: ''Less is more.''

''I think we've all stayed intact! I think we all kinda look the same.'' —Ringwald

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Despite the whole my-mom's-trying-to-seduce-me angle, ''[BttF] was just so uncontroversial and just fun,'' says Fox.

Thompson was thrilled to get to play around in a replica of the DeLorean from the movie since she ''didn't actually get to shoot in the car ... I'm a little bitter!

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''I remember we had a joke in the pilot where Al tells Steve (David Garrison) that PMS stands for 'pummel men's scrotums.' We weren't allowed to use it because of its off-color nature. That would be considered nothing today.'' —Applegate

''Al loved his kids in a strange, weird way, and he didn't cheat on Peg.'' —O'Neill

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''I was supposed to die in the first one, and Wes kept me alive. So that was my favorite death scene: me coming back to life.'' —Arquette

''It was really exhilarating and really fun. We definitely feel like family. It's been, like, 14 years now that we've known each other and made these films and we've always had a lot of fun on them. That always creates a good atmosphere on set as well when you know people are going to have a good time.'' —Campbell on making Scream 4

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Their gay/straight besties won over audiences with their take on platonic love, especially their '80s flashback to how it all began.
''It was just so sweet to act out that moment when they were actually thinking that they were lovers,'' —McCormack

''We're very comfortable with each other, and after nearly a decade of working together, we have a shorthand that will always be there,'' says Messing.

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''I remember the great guest stars. We worked with everyone: Elton John, Steve Martin, Johnny Cash, Sylvester Stallone, Julie Andrews, Bob Hope, Gene Kelly, and the cast of Star Wars ... to name just a few.'' —Kermit

On the status of their relationship:
Kermit: ''Don't ask...''
Miss Piggy: ''... don't tell.