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"I guess Seann William Scott's kinda got Butt-Head eyes. A long time ago, Johnny Depp had said to me that he really wanted to play Beavis. He was doing that [Island of Dr. Moreau] movie with Marlon Brando, and he said Marlon Brando used to imitate Butt-Head, and he would do Beavis." —Mike Judge entertains casting choices for a Beavis & Butt-Head live-action film [MTV ]

"The only problem is it makes you never want to wait in line for a Disney ride again. Once you get that deluxe treatment, it's hard." —Cole Jonas on the dangers of tasting fame [OK!]

"Riding that bike wasn't easy. It was a really heavy bike, and having [Harrison] on the back is not easy, pressure-wise, because if you fall, that's the end of the movie. You don't want to be that guy." —Shia LaBeouf on the toughest part of filming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [MTV]

"Absolutely not! Absolutely not! I can say that in the most definite terms. Harvey, do you have advice for young people? Absolutely not!" —Harvey Fierstein on his advice for young people [Gothamist]

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"I recognize it has no redeeming social value. It's just like chewing gum — it won't kill you, but it won't make you feel very good either." —Jerry Springer on The Jerry Springer Show [A.V. Club]

"This mix was supposed to have the Grateful Dead on it, whose music I really love, but they refused unless we promised to do a piece on them on All Things Considered. In addition, we would need to run a feature on The Dead on the site. Here's a sentence I've never written: Someone needs to take a bong hit and chill out." —Carrie Brownstein [NPR]

"It has become acceptable to mock people for the colour of their hair or the way they talk and it saddens me. It's like racism." —noted ginger and Simply Red lead singer Mick Hucknall [PR Inside]

"I wish he'd take more notes and things. What's his publication record?" —Paul Zimansky, professor of archaeology at SUNY, Stony Brook, on his desire to see a more realistic Indiana Jones [AP/Yahoo]

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"I believe that Gravy has studied hard enough; I think he got enough battle scars from the streets that he could pull it off." —Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie on how getting shot in the ass helped Jamal Woolard prepare for playing Notorious B.I.G. [MTV]

"Oh, you know, gardening, moving to Africa. And running for mayor of London, obviously. That would be too much fun." —Stephen Daldry on life after directing [Guardian]

"Every once in a while, us and the Sparta guys think that we should totally start a feud, but it never gets off the ground. We'll try being mean to each other, and then we just end up cracking up." —Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins [A.V. Club]

"I can't beat him at arguing. He's like a girl. A girl will win an argument every time." —Shawty Lo concedes defeat to T.I. in their war of words [MTV]

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"I remember I said to David on the day that we were going to film that scene — it involves a rubber knife — and I had read it and he explained it and I was looking at Emily, thinking, to me, it was so violent. And I was worried about it. In my head, I've just never been in that kind of situation where you're violently holding someone. And if you're trying to teach someone something, and you held them, wouldn't they just freak out? So I said to David 'Maybe we could do the scene the exact same way, but without the knife?' And David said, 'Did Peter O'Toole, on the set of Lawrence of Arabia, walk up to David Lean and say 'David, could we do the scene exactly as it is, but without the camel?' No, we're doing it with the knife.''" —Chiwetel Ejiofor [Cinematical]

"I clearly could've brought more of Michael Knight and the past into it. The bottom line was they missed a big audience because it was not retro and that was the whole point of it — being retro." —David Hasselhoff knows what would improve the upcoming Knight Rider television series: more David Hasselhoff [WENN via Starpulse]

"It's like taking on Lord of the Rings with maybe a different sort of devoted following" —director Vadim Perelman on adapting Atlas Shrugged for the big screen [Orlando Sentinel via PopMatters]

"You can pretty much bet all you own that I would never leave another voicemail message for my daughter that wasn't just like something out of a Rodgers and Hammerstein score." —Alec Baldwin [NYDN]

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"Female prison beauty pageant. It was done in Croatia and is a big number waiting to happen. It's empowering to women, it's empowering to prisoners. The whole idea of going from prisoner to hot babe is interesting." —reality-show legend Mike Darnell on his favorite reality-show idea that has yet to be produced in America [HR via Reuters]

"I heard these heels coming down the hallway. She was on the phone and I could hear, 'OK, perf. Oh, my God, that is so perf. Love you!' And then I saw her and I just said, 'Perf! I say that too,' and gave her this awkward, dorky hug. She was so accepting." —Lake Bell on meeting Cameron Diaz for the first time [LAT]

"The visors would fog over on the inside. So moments into fighting, I wouldn't be able to see. I hit two stunt guys, which I felt really bad about. But they were super cool. The thing you learn about stunt guys is it's sort of a badge of honor for them." —Matthew Fox on the Speed Racer stuntmen who view being punched by Matthew Fox as a badge of honor [LAT]

"Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food. Poultrygeist is aimed at the younger market, and at fat Al Gore riding around in his private jet with his big fat wife who wants us all to feel guilty about using up a little gas or smoking cigarettes when his family made its money off of tobacco." —Lloyd Kaufman, director of Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead [A.V. Club]

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"In the show, [Speed] talks really, really, really fast, and he says the same thing over and over. He'll be like, 'I wanna go on a race, because then I can win!' And then he'll say, 'When I win, I'll have won the race!' We couldn't do that for the movie." —Emile Hirsch on the obstacles of translating the Speed Racer cartoon to film [MTV]

"Jerri always looked presentable and she definitely had style. More so than Carrie Bradshaw ever had, and I think that, you know, I like that Jerri thought of herself like that." —Amy Sedaris on her Strangers With Candy character, Jerri Blank [A.V. Club]

"If they offer me another 10 years, I'd take it. Can you imagine! We could have Vince sitting at home while his sons run around getting into trouble. It'd be a spin-off — like Muppet Babies!" — Adrian Grenier on Entourage [WENN via Starpulse]

"Like most rock 'n' roll bands that split up, there were terrible arguments in Pink Floyd about who did what and when. And it's a huge comfort now to know that nobody's memory is reliable. It certainly explains a lot." —Roger Waters [DMN via PopMatters]

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"I think a lot of Canadian rappers pretend to be something they're not. I feel like when you try to do something like that, people will see through it pretty quickly. I don't think I look like any of the guys on The Wire. I don't think I could keep that up for very long, so why even try? Don't get me wrong, I love the same thug shit as any other rapper. But if I ever do Cribs, I'm probably not going to have a big Scarface poster above my bed, or Scarface bed sheets." —Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon [A.V. Club]

"For me, it tends to disappear, which is good, because, you know, I've just been playing Othello, and I'm not prone to psychopathic, jealous rages, which is fortunate." —Chiwetel Ejiofor on Method acting [A.V. Club]

"When you're in bed, and you're married to someone, don't fart under the covers and trap her under the covers, because she gets pissed." —Ashton Kutcher on how Demi is no fan of the Dutch oven [MTV]

"I decided on [the title] L.A.X. because that's the major airport here. I figured people fly into LAX coming and going. I consider myself like that airport, because anything coming through and leaving California gotta come through me." —The Game, basically guaranteeing that his upcoming album will be delayed [MTV]

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"John Williams and I have a word we use when we have something we think the audience will love. Maybe it'll be a little over the top, and we ask each other, 'Are we being too shameless?' In a way I think we've both grown kind of proud of being shameless." —Steven Spielberg [NYT]

"We had statutory rape up until three weeks ago." —Peter Berg on the struggles to keep Hancock at a PG-13 rating [NYT]

"There are fans on the Internet who have done artist's versions of what they think it will look like, and I can tell you this: They're thinking small; Chris is going way farther than people think." —Aaron Eckhart on The Dark Knight [LAT]

"It's not a James Bond film. We're not chasing a guy on a snowboard. Not that that wouldn't have been cool." —David Duchovny on The X-Files: I Want to Believe [LAT]

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"They're Australia's very own Turin Shroud. Actually it's a Mecca. Whole civilizations have been built in honour of lesser things than those hot pants. The pyramids, for example." —Nick Cave on the hotpants worn by Kylie Minogue in her video for Spinning Around [Sun UK]

"Handsome, sexy, drunk! I don't know. Stuff like, 'That was a fun day but, God, I ate way too much rice before lunch.' Or, 'Did I bang her?'" —Robert Downey Jr. on what he thinks when he watches his old performances [Mirror UK]

"I'm 40 years old, and I feel like there are only a limited amount of years where you can wear those tight jeans. There comes a point where whether you can wear them or not, you shouldn't wear them." —Scott Weiland [Rolling Stone]

"It's like, 'They don't curse that much, and they're not misogynistic, and they don't do gunplay and drugs, so ... they're political.' But really, that just makes us considerate." —Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson on The Roots [Philadelpha Inquirer via Pop Matters]

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"For me, it's kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there." —Harmony Korine on his filmmaking process [A.V. Club]

"Tony Stark is such a badass. He's got troubles, but he's even darker than Batman, because he's not a namby-pamby. Batman's crying all the time." —Simon Pegg on Iron Man [MTV]

"My sister inspired me to do it. She was throwing away loads of my pictures one day and I asked her why. She said 'it's not like they're going to be hanging in the Louvre." —Banksy on sneaking his artwork into the Louvre [Reuters]

"I've been offered a bit part in the Sandler movie — me and another well-known gay guy. That's the whole gag, one line. I think I have more life in me than being a side gag in an Adam Sandler movie." —Harvey Fierstein [AP via Yahoo]