Quotes
"[Sports programs in the U.S. are] almost like oxygen. If you don’t have them, you can’t live. There are four players fighting over those four sports only. Here in Europe, there’s only one media company that has a platform that reaches all of Europe."
- Discovery CEO David Zaslav, on the company's pan-regional sports platform Eurosport, in Deadline
"Good news! I still exist."
- Upcoming "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert in a video clip where he greeted fans and shaved off his beard
"The pictures came out over-the-top great ... I was always worried — you never wanted to look like a guy in drag, you never wanted to look like a guy in a dress, O.K. If you're going to do that, come out, you really have to look the part."
- Caitlyn Jenner, on her photos taken for the new Vanity Fair magazine
"We’re at the early stages, and can learn a lot from what other collegiate sports have gone through.... Golf is a long way from having those issues."
- Golf Channel SVP programming Tom Knapp, on how they'll avoid altering the amateur sports experience after beginning to show collegiate golf tournaments, in Cynsiders
"Can we just be all sex and drugs?"
- Mindy Kaling, jokingly suggesting what she'd like "The Mindy Project" to look like when it moves to Hulu
"Less observation, more imagination. That's my strongest tool, the power to imagine something because it's all fake and yet it's all real. Between truth and lies, the middle is art and storytelling."
- "Homeland's" Rupert Friend in the Los Angeles Times Envelope
"This idea of social return on investment is far from new, but is taking on greater importance today. Films ... bring awareness, expose injustice and drive activism with the goal of effecting change on social issues. Successful ones can activate audiences to take action, and may direct donations to the organizations the films spotlight."
- Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza, director of "Know How," in Cynsiders
"When I told my daughters there had never been a female president, they were like, 'What! How is that possible?' I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless."
- "Mike and Molly" star Melissa McCarthy
"What are they going to do next? Big Brother Auschwitz?"
- London Telegraph critic Matthew Day, writing about the Czech WWII reality show "Holiday in the Protectorate" which places a modern-day family in wartime conditions, complete with actors playing Nazis
"It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh."
- actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who was recently told by a producer that she was too old to play the love interest of a 55-year-old man on screen. She is 37.
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