Quotes
"Giuliana, I appreciate your apology, and I'm glad it was a learning experience for you and for the network. I hope that others negatively affected by her words can also find it in their hearts to also accept her apology as well."
- Zendaya, in a tweet directed at “Fashion Police’s” Giuliana Rancic, who said that the actress’ dreadlocked hairstyle at the Oscars made it seem like she smelled like patchouli oil or weed
"No one's watching them for the actual truth. You're basically putting in a tremendous amount of work to say the emperor has no clothes, when the emperor has spent like twenty years going ... 'I'm naked!'"
- Jon Stewart, noting why it shouldn't matter if Bill O'Reilly or Fox News repoters shade the facts
"I laughed at NPH. I don’t think it was meant as a political statement, but even if it was, that’s not so bad. My perspective is if you’re not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don’t care enough."
- Edward Snowden during a Reddit AMA Monday, commenting on Oscars host Neil Patrick Harris' joke that "Edward Snowden could not be here for some treason."
"Tonight we celebrate Hollywood’s best and whitest, sorry … brightest."
- Neil Patrick Harris' opening salvo as host of the 87th annual Academy Awards Sunday night
"We urge you to give us Frank. We need to see him break the fourth wall, to turn to us and remind us that there is life beyond the couch. Give us an out. A way through. Release 'House of Cards' early. Just for us. For one day only. It’s not too much to ask."
- Boston resident Kat Gonso, in an open letter to Netflix published in the Boston Globe, entreating the streaming service to start airing new "House of Cards" episodes
"I know you can trust him because, as any good daughter does, I have tested him on that. I can't wait until he's back on TV, and I know many of you guys feel that way."
- "Girls" star Allison Williams, discussing her father, NBC News anchor Brian Williams, who was recently suspended for six months
"Watch Justin Bieber learn how poor, defenseless houses feel."
- A social media note from Comedy Central, connected to the new egg-splattering promo teasing "The Roast of Justin Bieber"
"The new Daily Show has already won me over."
- Cartoonist Joel Watson, in a tweet after seeing the "Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary" Weekend Update segment featuring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Jane Curtin
"I guess nobody liked my makeup. I mean, I've been doing this for years and years and years, and people say things nice and they say things mean."
- Uma Thurman, responding to critics who found her unrecognizable when she walked the red carpet for "The Slap" premiere
"I guess nobody liked my makeup. I mean, I've been doing this for years and years and years, and people say things nice and they say things mean."
- Uma Thurman on "The Today Show," responding to critics who found her unrecognizable when she walked the red carpet for "The Slap" premiere
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