Bruce Springsteen Will Not Retire If Outsold by 50 Cent

“And at this point, I’m not competing with 50 Cent or trying to get on MTV.� —Bruce Springsteen [Rolling Stone]

“Oh, man, I’d love you to do a Q&A with him and conduct the whole interview as if you thought he really was my brother, because he would reach through the phone line and grab you by the throat. I did a movie with him and you could tell he was a little testy about that.� —Official Baldwin brother William Baldwin discusses Adam Baldwin, who is most definitely not a relative [Newsweek]

“When I first read it, I was like, oh my God, every scene is going to be like what I always call the ‘dead-baby’ scene. It’s going to be, the baby’s dead, the baby’s dead, the baby’s dead. I need the ‘I’d like cream in my coffee scene,’ the ‘No, that’s my parking spot scene.’� —Peter Sarsgaard on the intense nature of the Rendition script [AP]

“I always remember, we were having very hard times and we used to always go and queue for the social security benefit, the unemployment money. And the last time I ever queued for that, Sean [Connery] was two guys in front of me.� —Michael Caine on the salad days that he and the James Bond star shared [PR Inside]

“I met both Pacino and De Niro when they were really on the come. They were young and insecure. Now Pacino is very rich, maybe because he never spends any money; he just puts it in his mattress.� —Francis Ford Coppola reveals his true feelings about the Godfather actors [GQ via NYDN]
—Elizabeth Black