"Guitar Hero was devised to bring the guitar-playing experience to the masses without them having to put anything into it. And having done both, there's nothing like really playing guitar. I mean, what would you rather drive, a Ferrari or one of those amusement-park cars on a track?" —John Mayer is threatened by our talentless Guitar Hero fun [Rolling Stone]

"What are you going to do, you gonna tell a fuckin' story about that? Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I'm not in that game. I'm playing it the way I read it historically, and that's the way it is. When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like Bird, I use 90% black people. A guy like him should shut his face." —Clint Eastwood on Spike Lee [Guardian]

“I’m the worst wife in the cooking department. I always thought you can’t be good at food and sex, but you can always order the food in. I’d rather he didn’t order in the sex.” —Kate Beckinsale [Sun UK]

"People usually cover a song that says something about them, but I doubt she loves rock 'n' roll. Maybe she likes songs." —Joan Jett on Britney Spears's cover of "I Love Rock 'n Roll" [WENN via Starpulse]

"I literally kept trying to change "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST" to "JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST" 'cause I thought it was funnier. No. Those guys are like Shakespeare, and that's absolutely right for them." —J.K. Simmons on improvising in the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading [Cinematic Happenings Under Development]