Quotes
"I think if we just remain deeply tasteful and just put deeply tasteful people on the cover, it would be a rather boring magazine! Nobody would talk about us."
- Vogue editor Anna Wintour, on why she decided to put Kanye West and Kim Kardashian on the cover in April
"I found it pretty funny. My wife [Spanish actress Elsa Pataky] did, too. I think you’ve bought me a couple of weeks of bragging rights around the house. I can just say to her, ‘Now, remember, this is what the people think, so, I don’t need to do the dishes anymore — I’m above that. I’ve made it now.'"
- Actor Chris Hemsworth, on being named People's Sexiest Man Alive for 2014
"I see the New York press going, 'Taylor Swift is going to be the new New York representative?' You snoots. Let her in. That's what New York is all about. I say, 'Welcome.' ... She catches a lot of junk, maybe because she's so popular with young girls. But I like what she's projecting. I respect what she's doing."
- Billy Joel standing up for Taylor Swift, who was recently named the city's Global Welcome Ambassador
"I always feel like when you get someone arrested, you should do the best you can to make a film about them. That's always been my mantra: If I get you arrested, you get a film. You get a film!"
- Jon Stewart talking about his new film "Rosewater," based on a true story in which an Iranain journalist was accused of being a spy after appearing in a piece on "The Daily Show"
"If Walter Cronkite and Jon Stewart had a baby, and due to the ongoing controversy over same sex marriage they had to abandon that baby on the New Jersey turnpike, and it grew up to be a news anchor, its name would be Brian Douglas Williams."
- Bruce Springsteen introducing NBC News anchor Brian Williams at the New Jersey Hall of Fame induction ceremony
"I might be a big fan after tonight.... They're going to be absolutely amazing."
- Amy Childs, reality star on UK show "The Only Way is Essex," responding to the on-camera question, "You know Ebola is going to be huge, don't you?"
"I'm going to break the news on the 'Today Show' ... something about the orange couch that is like a truth serum to me. I'm just going to do a folk album..... A little klezmer, a little folk."
- Jon Stewart revealing his next big project after his directorial debut "Rosewater" is released
"No, [it was] just a random joke.... In a previous future show, we saw Ralph as a police chief with multiple clones — each being killed. Some have interpreted 2017 as the last year of the show, which is possible but I doubt it."
- "The Simpsons" EP Al Jean, explaining a gravestone with the dim son of the police chief's name on it that appeared in Sunday's show
"We've paid a lot of attention to this, we've asked agencies…'Please encourage your women writers to submit to our show.' The numbers are just surprising. You'd be shocked. We get about 25 submissions from men for every one submission we get from a woman. So just by the numbers alone, that's how it shakes down."
- "Late Show" head writer Matt Roberts, on the lack of gender diversity on the writing staff
"Basic social engagement is really a struggle. I'm very literal. When people talk to me and they use expressions, sometimes I don't know what they're saying. But I don't see it as dysfunctional. I just think of it as an alternate mindset."
- Jerry Seinfeld, speculating to Brian Williams that he thinks he's on the autism spectrum
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