“I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction. My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor, but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society — when you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.” —Jude Law [Sueddeutsche Zeitung via Contact Music]
“Everybody has their own way of doing things and I can only really speak for myself and know that we are making a Season 2 happen.” —Mike “the Situation” Sorrentino on a second season of Jersey Shore [Access Hollywood]
“I really, really want some excuse to be able to rap and go to the mall and go to those kiosk things and go buy bling and experience rapping in front of a car with spinners for the first time. T-Pain agreed to it and flew to Nashville and we were in a sweltering hot, 95-degree parking garage for an entire day shooting — I will never, ever forget that memory.” —Taylor Swift [RS]
“I went in there one night drunk in the studio, and I made a rock record where I was playing the drums and singing this melody and I tracked it. I said, ‘This song would sound crazy if somebody took me seriously.’ So I sent it to Weezer. I ain’t know these guys or nothing. They hit me back and said, ‘We love this song. We want to cut it.’ I said, ‘What? Get the fuck outta here.’ I went to L.A. and met with Rivers, and we hit it off. They put my song on the album. That’s, like, a first. A whole new explosion for me. I was really geeked on that.” —Jermaine Dupri [MTV]
“I was frustrated because I wasn’t really working that much on it and it was six months of my life. My career is going places and I wasn’t able to do the things I wanted to. And I had to live in L.A.” —Amanda Seyfried on quitting Big Love [OK! UK via Contact Music]
