Robert Greenblatt
"Flat is the new up."
The NBC Entertainment chairman, characterizing the network's ratings during the annual summer Television Critics Association meeting.
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Willie Robertson
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images "That sounds like a Chinese food place!"
The Duck Commander CEO, recalling his first reaction to the idea of naming a reality series that would be based on the family business of making duck calls Duck Dynasty.
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Shailene Woodley
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images "Don't do a sex tape or do drugs."
The Spectacular Now actress, recalling the advice she recently got from Jennifer Lawrence on surviving the movie business.
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Matthew Perry
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images "If I had a time machine, I would like to go back to 2004 and not have stopped."
The actor, expressing regrets about the end of Friends while interviewing fellow castmember Lisa Kudrow during a stint filling in for Piers Morgan on CNN.
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Justin Long
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images "The only way the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal could get more ironic is if my uncle Dick Long (not a joke) became his running mate."
The actor, tweeting about the revelations that the New York mayoral candidate continued to text naked photos of himself to women for more than a year after his resignation from Congress for the same scandal-causing behavior.
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Alec Baldwin
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images "I knew the marriage was over when his wife was nice to me at Carnegie Hall."
The actor, joking that he realized the union between Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng was in trouble when she was willing to pose for a photo with him at a charity event. Murdoch filed for divorce from Deng in June after 14 years of marriage.
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Jennifer Salke
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images "It's frustrating that you can't take the time to nurture a show and grow the audience as much as you might want to."
The NBC Entertainment president, blaming ratings pressure for the network's decision not to greenlight a second season of bubble shows The New Normal and Go On.
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Bill Clinton
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images "Everyone wants the moves like Jagger…but @MickJagger, you're one of a kind. Happy Birthday, friend!"
The former president wishing the Rolling Stones frontman 70th birthday greetings via Twitter.
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Johnny Depp
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images "At a certain point, you realize that you've said written words more than … your own words … that's kind of insane."
The Lone Ranger actor, offering a reason for why he's considering retiring from acting in the near future.
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Spike Lee
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images "We were doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter."
The director, responding to criticism that his Kickstarter campaign, which has since July 24 raised more than $400,000 for his next untitled feature, was unseemly for an established director like himself.