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Big Boi Named His Shark Billy Ocean

“I did [meet the real Billy Ocean], a long time ago. He was real laid-back. Watching TV back when I was younger, I remember ‘Caribbean Queen’ coming on all the time. I thought it was really gangsta how he had a Jheri curl and a glitter suit and a bow tie. That shit was so pimpish to me. I named my shark Billy Ocean.” —Big Boi, who also sometimes goes by the name Billy Ocean [Spin]

“I don’t want people to protest this, but I would like to be [Sarah] Rainmaker in Gen 13 if they ever made that into a movie. … She’s a Native American and I have a little bit of that blood in me. It would be a bit of a stretch — but if Jake Gyllenhaal can be the Prince of Persia, I think that I can do that.” —Megan Fox [Fox News]

“I’m not on Twitter. In the first place, I can’t clear my throat in 140 letters, and that’s the limit. I’m notoriously long-winded.” —James Lipton [NYDN]

“I just knew that, in our fight scene, if I messed up his hair, millions of young women would want to kill me, so I really tried to be careful not to do that.” —Bryce Dallas Howard on her fight scene with Robert Pattinson in Twilight: Eclipse [Parade]

“All my cast members hate me. People say, ‘Do you mean during 90210?’ I say, ‘No, we were great friends during 90210. We were friends after 90210.’ They all came to my first wedding. … [But then] all of a sudden I marry Dean [McDermott], and I don’t know what happened. I lost all my cast members.” [Ryan Seacrest: Tiffani Thiessen never said anything bad about you — I think she likes you a lot.] “It’s my perception, and nonetheless, it’s a fun story.” —Tori Spelling [KIIS-FM via People]

“Look at what happened to Gary Coleman. When he was on Diff’rent Strokes he was really catered to. He could show up on set in his pajamas. That wouldn’t have flown on Little House. The kids on Diff’rent Strokes were absolutely fussed over. Every whim was entertained and they were paid enormous amounts of money. They were treated like stars. How’d that work out?” —Alison Arngrim, Little House on the Prairie’s Nellie Oleson [CNN via Jezebel]

“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say, ‘Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.’” —Lady Gaga [RS]

Big Boi Named His Shark Billy Ocean