Brett Ratner's 10 Offensive Quotes That Ended in Oscar Trouble

Directors rarely get the opportunity to be the face of their films' promotions, but not all directors are Brett Ratner.

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The man behind the Rush Hour franchise, and what was supposed to be the upcoming Oscar telecast, has been making the rounds for his latest film, Tower Heist, appearing on talk shows, radio programs and at public screenings.

At almost every opportunity, he seems to have gleefully inserted his foot into his mouth.

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First, he addressed rumors about a past relationship with Olivia Munn, defending his manhood by confirming that he did indeed "bang" her. Then, he dropped the three-letter f-bomb at a Q&A, eliciting scorn from GLAAD and eye rolls from every corner of the industry. Most recently, he stopped by Howard Stern to backtracked on Munn but confess that he once forced Lindsay Lohan to get checked for sexually transmitted diseases when she was "very young." 

So in the interest of absorbing the crudest, most ill-advised and all around regrettable soundbites to come out of Ratner's mouth in the last week, here are the 10 greatest. And by "greatest," we mean worst:

1. “I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you’re going to catch something in the future even.” - - Brett Ratner on Lindsay Lohan (The Howard Stern Show)

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2. “I said I banged her three times, which wasn’t true... The problem is I made her look like whore." - Brett Ratner on Olivia Munn (The Howard Stern Show)

3. "I have huge balls." - Brett Ratner on his balls (The Howard Stern Show)

4. "I turned 40, and I said, 'Holy s---. I've never gotten a girl pregnant.' And I've been doing this pull-out thing for year and years and years. So I go to a doctor and I said, 'You gotta check my sperm.' He calls me up two days later and says, 'We gotta talk.' .... He said, 'Brett, in 25 years, I've never seen a sperm count like this.' The average load is 40 million sperm, and only 30-40 percent are motile. He said I have 10 times, 480 million sperm, he said, 'If you breathe on a girl, she's going to get pregnant.' ... So now I'm condoms only." - Brett Ratner on never getting a woman pregnant, including longtime ex-girlfriend Rebecca Gayheart (The Howard Stern Show)

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5. "I'm probably the best in the world at it" - Brett Ratner on oral sex (The Howard Stern Show)

6. "She was hanging out on my set of ‘After the Sunset,’ I banged her a few times…but I forgot her." - Brett Ratner on Olivia Munn (G4)

7. "When she came and auditioned for me for a TV show, I forgot her, she got pissed off and she made up all these stories about me eating shrimp and masturbating in my trailer. And my shortcomings. She talked about my shortcomings. I get it. She’s bitter.”  Brett Ratner on Olivia Munn (G4)

8. "I used to date Olivia Munn.. when she was Lisa. That was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then." - Brett Ratner on Olivia Munn (G4)

9. "Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much." - Brett Ratner (at a Tower Heist screening)

10. "It was a dumb way of expressing myself. Everyone who knows me knows that I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my body. But as a storyteller I should have been much more thoughtful about the power of language and my choice of words.” - Brett Ratner apologizing for his stance on rehearsal.