PartyLines- photographs by Patrick McMullan

What brings you out here tonight? “We're doing a bit of a victory lap. I was too tired to do The View last week, but I didn't want to piss off the power ladies.” —Robert Downey Jr.

—Mariah Carey

Do you watch 30 Rock? “I'm letting my 10-year-old daughter watch it. She's obsessed. I don't know if it's appropriate, but I've decided not to care.” —Judd Apatow

—Tina Fey

You were on the ‘Time 100' list last year. Any benefits? “We get absolutely no power with this thing. Even though Ray Kelly is here and was a member of my class, I still get dinged if I'm too close to a hydrant.” —Brian Williams

—L.A. Reid

Is there anyone you'd like to get to write for the Huffington Post but can't? “At the beginning we used to chase. Now we're just letting them come to us.” —Arianna Huffington

—John McCain

Do you use Craigslist a lot? “Now and again. Frankly I've been doing customer service for fifteen years. It can get to you now and then.”
—Craig Newmark

—Georgina Chapman

You were sitting near John McCain at dinner. Did you talk? “He lost my respect when he read his toast tonight. If you public-speak every night, you don't read your speeches off a piece of paper. It means he's old.” —Ethan Hawke

—Tyler Perry

Anyone you wanted to meet tonight? “I'm sad I'm not going to meet that terrorist guy from Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, but I don't think he came! I don't know why.” —Fred Armisen

—Bill O'Reilly

You're having a contest to name a pair of cows on your farm? “The favorite now is Ben and Jen, after Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. I think they would be very pleased to have a pair of rare, miniature white-faced Herefords named after them.” —Martha Stewart

—Seth Meyers

Are you nervous about this event? “Do I look nervous? I feel stoked.” —Herbie Hancock

—Amy Poehler

What's more stressful: being on television, being at this party, or operating on someone? “There is nothing like touching a human heart that's quivering in front of your fingers, and then having it stop.” —Dr. Mehmet Oz

—Lance Armstrong

What's one extravagance that you splurge on? “Flying private. But when I'm not working, I fly JetBlue.” —Suze Orman

—Peter Gabriel

Should Hillary Clinton drop out of the presidential race? “If you leave a club at 1 a.m., it was your choice not to get laid. But if you wait till the club closes, you're ugly, and that's why you didn't get laid.” —Chris Rock