Posted Jan. 13, 2009

Renée Zellweger may have suffered a bout of temporary insanity when she decided that dressing like a cathouse madam from the Old West was the ideal look for the Golden Globes red carpet, but she sounds perfectly reasonable in the February issue of Marie Claire, even when the topic turns to whether she'll marry again.

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"I never say never about anything, because I look back on my own personal history and it shocks me," admits the Oscar winner, 39, who made headlines in 2005 with her dizzyingly fast marriage to and split from country crooner Kenny Chesney (their four-month union was eventually annulled). "If I would ever have said, 'Oh for sure this is going to be in my future,' most of my experiences would not have been on my list."

Figures Zellweger, "So I don't even bother thinking about it, because I've learned that there's no anticipating that stuff."

These days, she spends what little free time she has at her under-constant-renovation house on Long Island or at her New York apartment, and she says she's content with her solo status.

"The thing is, I'm away all the time," explains Renée. "I suppose if I sat still long enough to get to know somebody beyond a dinner date, maybe. But I don't feel like my life is empty or that I have to make something happen."

To prove it, she lists the many things on her to-do list: "I have projects to develop. I want to study American history and political science, live in an apartment in France, and fix my bad French. And is there really time for all of it?"

To drive her point home, she shares a conversation she had last summer with a friend.

"I said it wasn't the right time for something I wanted to do," she recalls, which prompted her friend to ask, "How long are you going to live?"

Concludes the actress with a laugh, "I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line."

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Also still single -- at least legally -- is Isla Fisher, who talks to February's Allure about her plans to tie the knot with longtime love Sacha Baron Cohen, the father of her ridiculously adorable 15-month-old daughter, Olive.

"We are going to get married, really, really, even more now than ever," the Australian actress fate-temptingly declares. "We have been talking about it and we have been very close, but it has been difficult to plan."

But one thing that's not holding up their "I dos" is her study of Judaism.

"I converted as of two years ago," says Fisher. "It is always reported that I am still studying, so I am either the slowest studier in the world, or I have, in fact, converted."

According to the redheaded looker, "It is very important to me to have a beautiful ritual celebrated with all my family and friends, and to feel part of the community. And when you are in the public eye, to keep that private and make it happen without it being really visible is really difficult."

Fisher, who is out promoting the forthcoming "Confessions of a Shopaholic," describes her "Borat"- and "Bruno"-channeling squeeze of about seven years as "mysterious and interesting," words not likely used by those at the receiving end of the zingers he delivered while presenting Sunday night at the Golden Globes.

She adds that the family unit they've created is the "thing that I am the most proud of. And that is thanks to him."

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