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Quote…Unquote
“Why are we roasting you? You’re Irish. Shouldn’t we be boiling you?’’
Nick DiPaolo on Comedy Central’s roast of actor Denis Leary.
“On the basis of doing my research, I’ve noticed that liberals have been hysterical about [Senator Joe] McCarthy for 50 years and no one’s been arguing back. So now that someone’s arguing back, yes, I’m expecting candlelight vigils.”
Ann Coulter the notoriously sharp-tongued right-winger (who as far as we know is not Irish), on her new book, Treason in which she defends McCarthy. –Time Magazine
“The sight of six men sitting in a conference room, picking up lacey underwear and analyzing it, is frozen in my memory.”
Mary Lou Quinlan, still annoyed that she was excluded from the Maiden-form pitch by the male team at DDB Neeham’s New York office more than a decade ago, has written a book Just Ask a Woman, about women’s buying patterns. – S.F. Chronicle
“The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic.”
Mel Gibson, actor, on directing The Passion, a movie about the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life.
–People Magazine
Comedian Bill Maher had audiences screaming at the New York taping of his HBO special Victory Begins at Home when he called British Prime Minister Tony Blair
“President Bush’s prison bitch.” –Daily News
“I think this is his last laugh.”
Joseph Biden, Democratic Senator from Delaware, on being picked by Strom Thurmond to deliver a eulogy at his funeral. –Time Magazine
“Our resources are misspent, our punishments too severe, our sentences too long.”
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association in August. Kennedy said that prison terms were too long and that he favored ending mandatory minimum sentences for some federal crimes.– S.F. Chronicle
“Being the best divorce lawyer in New York is like being the best devil in hell.”
Book publisher Judith Reagan.
–Hollywood Life Magazine
“Americans love them [the Royal Family], but I don’t feel they’re relevant any more. There goes me knighthood.”
– Ringo Starr in London Sun
“Old Navy has offered to make me a tuxedo.”
Funnyman Conan O’Brien on what he’ll be wearing to the Emmy Awards on Sept. 21 in L.A. Late Night with Conan O’Brien nabbed two nominations. If he does make it to the podium, O’Brien’s got his speech prepared. “I think it’s a time to settle old scores,” he says. “Just read a long list of people who have gotten in my way over the years: interns that didn’t get my coffee quickly enough, people that failed to ask for my autograph.” And as a final flourish, “I’ll plan to announce that I am leaving comedy to become a stock analyst.”
–People Magazine
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