“There’s a couple of women I’d like to hug. I’d like to hug Angelina Jolie. I wanna hug Alicia. I’m happy for her. I wanna tell them in person: I’m still a fan.†—Drake on his plans for Sunday’s MTV VMAs [MTV]
“I was more of an actor who directed back then and now I’m more of a director who acts. Or occasionally acts. Or maybe never acts … †—Clint Eastwood [LAT]
“There’s the glib answer, which is that I’ve never met a gassy women out for a passionate relationship in church or on the Los Angeles Police Department.†—James Ellroy on the kind of women he goes for [AV Club]
“I mean, getting up at a totally superficial fake hugs bullshit event like this and being vulnerable and talking about something REAL is no fucking joke. We left 5 minutes after this because it was so far beyond the ‘who farted?’ feeling, it felt like people were gonna kill us.†—Kathleen Hanna on Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz’s speech at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards [Hanna’s blog via Pitchfork]
“I asked if she was flying private, and she said, ‘No, commercial.’ And then as politely as I could, I asked her how she planned on traveling with that amount of blow and X. She held the box in her right hand, and then with an underhand swoop like a lower case J, she demonstrated exactly how she intended to beat airport security. She even whistled as she did it. A little alley-oop with the Camel Box, straight up her snatch. Classic.†—Ryan Simkin on Paris Hilton, in his as-yet-unreleased tell-all book [Dlisted]
“I wonder what my doctor was implying when he said ‘No, really. You need to do more Kegels.’†—Diablo Cody [Diablo Cody/Twitter]
“I would say that Times Square, or Conde Nast, would be well served by having lots of straightjackets around.†—Tim Gunn [Daily Show via Jezebel]
“Brandon [Lee’s son] just turned 14 and he goes, ‘Dad, for my birthday I wanna throw a rave.’ He took over this place, I bought a huge sound system, lights, Glo-sticks … The cops came three times and he was so pumped.†—Tommy Lee on his son’s birthday [Daily Express UK]