WrestlingINC.com interview
Kanellis discusses debuting in the WWE:
Oh, my gosh. It was a mix of everything. I was 22-years-old, I never experienced anything like that in my entire life. The first time I was on live television, was the first time I’d ever been in front of a live crowd that size. Just getting over that in itself was insane. I didn’t come from the independents, so wrestling was all new to me. I was training down in Ohio Valley Wrestling at the same time I was on the road. I was training with Fit Finley.
The Making of Ted interview
MacFarlane is interviewed and talks about how he came up with ‘Ted’. He talks about the original inspiration for the humor from his upbringing in New England.
What the technology does is that it takes fantastical characters and makes them as real as possible.
Tempestt Bledsoe interview
Bledsoe talks about her new series Guys with Kids and her character and synopsis.
We’re going to show a lighter side of parenthood.
Entrepreneur interview
Branson tells Entrepreneur that Virgin Galactic is a new experience after previous ventures focused on industries that were already established:
First we’re taking people to suborbital space travel, then orbital, and then we’ll be able to put satellites into space at a fraction of the price it currently costs. One day, maybe even hotels in space–who’s to know? Whatever happens, it’s going to be ridiculously exciting. It’s the start of a whole new era.
Like other Virgin ventures, Galactic grew out of consumer frustration:
I thought when I saw the moon landing all those years ago that one day NASA would be able to fly me into space … soon it became apparent that government-run companies don’t have any interest in worrying about you or me going to space. They have other things on their minds.
He is spending more time focusing on causes like those promoted through The Elders group led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu:
A lot of my entrepreneurial skills now are spent in setting up not-for-profit organizations. We’re a little more secure now, so we do things a bit differently … I enjoy life too much to become complacent. I was on the phone this morning with the president of the Maldives–there’s been a coup there, and I’m trying to see if I can help him not get arrested. I’m in a position where I can make a difference and think I shouldn’t waste that. Life is far too much fun and interesting not to throw myself wholeheartedly into it, and I suspect I’ll keep doing so until I drop.
WWE.com interview
Cena talks to WWE.com about having spent a decade in WWE to celebrate ten years with the company.
To be honest … being able to say that I make a living doing this has been the greatest experience in these 10 years. It’s pretty spectacular.
ESPN Radio interview
Battier comments on the feeling of winning an NBA championship:
It was surreal. You play this game for as many years as I’ve played and I use the analogy, I sort of wandered through the NBA wilderness the last 10 years, that’s what it felt like. You just never knew if you’d have a chance to host the trophy. … It was really surreal, like a movie.
Music Matters keynote
Carter gives the keynote interview at Music Matters 2012. He talks about how he has diversified into technology investing:
It’s been a little over a year that we started a fund at Atom Factory. It happened from us taking a risk in terms of marketing and working with young startups, and a even with some of the larger companies that we were working with. A lot of people started approach us about advising us about their companies, and us investing in their companies. We’ve invested in Drop box, Spotify, Socialcam, Voxxer, Uber. It’s maybe a little over 30 companies in our portfolio. We have somebody full time that works with founders and that analysis deals. It’s becoming a significant part of our business. Not just from a financial standpoint, but from an access standpoint — being able to get a real glimpse at the technology that’s on the horizon. Y’know a lot of these guys are going to be the next world leaders…It was done on purpose — prior to stating our fund we spent a year in Silicon Valley.
CNN interview
Kassig is profiled in a CNN interview.
We each get one life and that’s it. We get one shot at this and we don’t get any do-overs, and for me, it was time to put up or shut up. The way I saw it, I didn’t have a choice. This is what I was put here to do. I guess I am just a hopeless romantic, and I am an idealist, and I believe in hopeless causes.
I am not a doctor. I am not a nurse. But I am a guy who can clean up bandages, help clean up patients, swap out bandages, help run IVs, make people’s quality of life a little bit better,” he says. “This is something for me that has meaning, that has purpose.
There is this mentality from where I come from back home that I have a little bit of a problem with. I don’t want to get on a political soap box, but at the same time we have to think about why as a country we choose to help certain people and not others. We have to think about why we just chalk up the Middle East [as] this complex enigma that we will never understand because they are so different from us. But at the end of the day, they are really not. It’s just about whether or not you’re willing to go out on a limb and understand something.
This is real, and it’s scary stuff, and it’s sad what is happening to people here. People back home need to know about it, they need to know. Sometimes you gotta take a stand, you gotta draw a line somewhere.
The Art of Wrestling interview
Punk takes over as host of the podcast to interview regular host, Cabana. The pair discuss wrestling , Chicago and the podcast’s 100th episode.
Colt interviews me something like, two years ago. I approached him and said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if for the 100th episode I interview you?” And I’ve known Colt the longest in this crazy world of wrestling so, who better to do it?
Playboy interview
Sheen speaks to Playboy Magazine about public scandals that cause him to be fired from the television show Two and a Half Men, which include his public addictions to drugs, porn stars, and trashing hotel rooms:
Yeah. It was surreal. And it never occurred to me where this stuff was going to end up or how it was going to be perceived. I didn’t care about anything beyond the moment. And then I was a little shocked by how huge the whole thing became. It was like an organism you couldn’t stop. It kept growing.
The Kardashians interview
Winfrey interviews the Kardashian family on Oprah’s Next Chapter. The interview features sit down one on one sessions with the whole family.
But I don’t think it would have happened if we were all like skinny pretty models. I think it has to do with us, the curves, the dark hair.
TSN 1050 interview
Rivers talks about leaving early Duke for the NBA:
No doubt. It was not something I just decided over night. It took many days and a lot of talks with Coach K and my father. We went over it and they both agree that this is the right step for me and so do I. It just came down to the fact that, ‘Do I believe that I can play at this level?’ And I do. I think there’s a lot of things I can bring to the table.
50 Cent interview
Winfrey interviews 50 Cent in a one-on-one session that deals with his drug dealing past, balancing rapping and acting careers simultaneously, and being shot nine times.
It doesn’t hurt as much as people think it would hurt because of your adrenaline the shock of whats going on. It hurts after. I didn’t even know my legs were broke when I tried to get out the car.
Vanilla Ice interview
Seacrest interviews Vanilla Ice during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about his role in the film That’s My Boy.
At one point about 10 years ago I was going to burn it, and film myself burning it, because I had a problem with my whole past but I’ve made peace with it and now I love it. Holla pop your collar.
Julianne Hough interview
Seacrest interview during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about her friendship with Mary J. Blige.
She’s amazing, literally she leaves me messages on my cell phone: ‘Hey, just thinking about you. Hope you’re doing well.’ You know, just checking in, she’s amazing. I literally thought that I was going to be super intimidated and nervous, but she’s a sweetheart, she’s amazing, and she just happens to be Mary J. frickin Blige.
Shape Magazine interview
Taylor speaks to Shape Magazine about her exercise routine.
I get up every morning at 4:50 a.m. and put on my running shoes and go for a nice little jog in my neighborhood. I get up before everybody else. That’s my time. I get to go over what the day is going to bring and I get to pray and clear my mind. It’s a lifestyle now and if I don’t, I feel like something’s off. My husband is really into Crossfit. He’ll write out programs for me, and if it’s raining out I’ll do that one day to switch it up.
Shape Magazine interview
Gomes tells Shape Magazine about how she uses the Paleo diet to maintain her weight.
With food, I just have one rule; I try and stay away from breads and pastas. Other than that, I eat everything. I follow the Paleo Diet which works really well for me. Anything that can swim, run, or is grown from the ground is allowed on the diet. I’ve tried being a vegan and following a raw foods diet, but none of these are sustainable when you travel a lot. At least now, I have tons of options no matter where I am.
That’s My Boy
Sandler stars in That’s My Boy a film about a middle-aged father who is stuck in the 80’s. The film co-stars Andy Samberg.
It was fun to speak the way I speak in my bathroom. I grew up cursing a lot and it felt natural. And then my parents yelled at me and told me to stop and they weren’t enjoying my albums. They weren’t enjoying a lot of things I did with my life. Then my father passed away and he’s not here to yell at me anymore. So my mother I bully her I say, Here comes some more dirtiness. Sit and enjoy it. And that’s what we did.
TV Line interview
Woodley talks to TV Line about Secret Life, The Spectacular Now and the opportunity that The Descendants gave her to work with George Clooney.
That was a totally magical time in my life, and it changed a lot about who I am today. It was a dynamic experience which I feel so lucky to have had.
WQAM in Miami interview
Bradley comments on his upcoming bout with Pacquiao:
Because I feel ‘Manny Time’ is up. His time is definitely up and I feel that it’s my time. I’ve wanted 18 years but for four years I have been calling this guy out. Never got looked at, never got a shot and the fact that four years later I get this fight, it’s my time. The fact that Manny Pacquiao hasn’t been looking that great his last couple of fights, the fact that he hasn’t faced a young guy with my type of skill and my type of speed and power so this is not another washed up opponent or fixed opponent.