"I guess Gene Hackman's death was a celebrity hoax. People have too much damn time on their hands..."
- Actor Dylan McDermott, who like many others on Twitter thought a headline referring to Hackman as being "gone" meant he had died
Quotes
"Rest assured, Buddy came to us from a reputable and loving breeder in California. He’s now part of the GoDaddy family as our Chief Companion Officer and he lives permanently with one of our longtime employees."
- GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving, in a mea culpa statement released after the company's now-yanked lost dog Super Bowl ad drew fire
"I’ve seen a couple of funny principal snow day closings and I thought we could really crush that."
- Adam Olenn, communications head of Moses Brown School, who spearheaded a "Let It Go" parody to announce the school's closure
"I know as Miss USA I can always spread a message of hope and love and peace, and I would do my very best to spread that message to them and everyone else in the world."
- Miss USA Nia Sanchez during the "Miss Universe Pageant," when asked what her message to the terrorists would be
"The Internet will disappear.... There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it. It will be part of your presence all the time."
- Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, on the future of the internet
"For us, [to] get a little tarnish off the badge and shine it up a bit, because we've been getting a lot of ... negative publicity.... Police in general [have] been getting crazy negative publicity."
- Master Cpl. Jeff Davis, the policeman whose dashboard camera video of him singing Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" has garnered over 20M views
"Brother finally gets a show on late-night TV, but of course he has to work on Martin Luther King Day."
- Larry Wilmore, kicking off his "Nightly Show" on Comedy Central
"That whole idea for me is a sickening thing, it's always just made me sick.... I've been very lucky to play on friends' records and it's still going. Music is still part of my life.... But you won't be hearing The Johnny Depp Band. That won't ever exist."
- Johnny Depp, expressing his opinions on actors who use their fame to try to become rock stars
"We did a North Korea episode in season three — and not even an angry phone call."
- "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" star/producer Charlie Day, joking about the kerfuffle over "The Interview"
"The network’s approach was to tell a universal, ambiguous, cornstarch story about Asian-Americans resembling moo goo gai pan written by a Persian-American who cut her teeth on race relations writing for Seth MacFarlane."
- Eddie Huang, whose memoir "Fresh Off the Boat" has inspired an ABC comedy of the same name, in New York magazine
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