Steve Martin: Huge Disappointment

“The worst thing that can happen to a father is to have a child who’s a writer.� —Steve Martin, who’s not sure what his father would think about his new memoir, Born Standing up: A Comic’s Life [USAT]

“I think Lou got a peek at O’Reilly’s contract and saw what you can make doing opinion — particularly if you’re cranky.� —Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes on Lou Dobbs [NYT]

“I’d been talking to Dr. Dre for a year to try and get as much guidance as possible. And one day he finally just said, ‘Hey, don’t clown out our world.’ So, now, I try to apply that axiom. I don’t want to clown out the F.B.I. world.� —Brian Grazer on his production company’s next television show, The F.B.I. [NYT]

“Would I rather keep my hair? Absolutely. But at the end of the day, it was all right. You say, thank God it’s fairly round up there.� —Timothy Olyphant on going bald for his role in Hitman [NYP]

“There’s definitely been a lot more of that this last week thanks to the writer’s strike — we are taking advantage of it. It’s kind of fun because we’re getting to say, ‘I don’t like that, let’s throw this here!’� —Reaper star Bret Harrison on improvising, pissing off striking writers [NYP]
—Stan Park