"Not the right lyrics at all pssshhhh. You had one job, test people. One job."
- Taylor Swift, taking exception to Princeton Review's misquoting her lyrics in a test prep booklet
Quotes
"I always say don't be afraid of failure, because how far can you really fall? You found out -- to the ground.... You took the first step and you fell, but at least you fell in the right direction, so get back up and take the next step."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, completely stunning a Reddit user who'd posted how he felt demoralized after being laughed at when he went to the gym for the first time
"Let me just come right out and say it: I am fat. In the past 15 years . . . I have put on 30 pounds. I live to eat. None of this ‘eat to live’ stuff for me. I am a champion eater. No carb is safe — no fat, either."
- Former "Murphy Brown" star Candice Bergen in her new memoir "A Fine Romance"
"The fact that we have these two blowout fights is just a natural progression of the storytelling to the build on the finale, and we felt like we’re in a finale. We’re in our final episode of the season, and s***’s going to go down, and that’s what happens. It went down."
- "Empire" co-creator Danny Strong, on the knockout (and fisticuff-filled) first season finale
"I was actually discussing this issue with a friend of mine recently when I was in Philly; it occurred on a basketball court... At some point during the conversation, a couple of guys who were up to no good essentially started causing trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said 'you're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.'"
- "Jack Strickland," who called into C-Span during a live chat and set up a scenario echoing "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's" theme song
"With the benefit of hindsight, we definitely brought it back too soon."
- NBCUniversal Lifestyle Networks Group president Frances Berwick, on the announcement that "Fashion Police" is now on extended hiatus
"I don’t know that we ever had a world domination talk, but at some point our fan base began to grow, and we had to say, 'How do we proceed? What way is our time best spent?' A lot of it is also going by instinct. There’s no template on how to do this."
- Riki Lindhome of comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates talking about how they only kinda-sorta planned for success, in Cynsiders
"Tonight we're going to give what his parents and the legal system should have done years ago. We're going to give this boy an ass-whoopin.'"
- Host Kevin Hart, kicking off Comedy Central's roast of Justin Bieber, about the evening's star attraction
"[The house's owner] is the sweetest lady in the world, and if you are getting on her nerves, you are doing something seriously [expletive] wrong."
- "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan, trying to stem the tide of fans tossing pizzas on the roof of a private home as they re-enact a famous scene from the series
"I'm not very much like my character, who is very wild, and I think that when I go on dates there's this expectation that I'm going to have, like, 11 martinis.... I could never have a one-night stand because I have my medications that I have to take at night. I have to be at my house and, like, do my flossing."
- Mindy Kaling, creator and star of "The Mindy Project"
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