Henson interview
Williams interviews Taraji P. Henson on career, love life and family.
Here is the thing. I never mix business with pleasure. I’m saying this to the young girls out there. Whatever you do in your private life should be just that private. You know if you a hoe girl be a hoe behind the scenes. Seriously, I mean that because if you’re having sex with them. Why would they ever want to work with you again. Think about it.
ABC interview
Rice discusses Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and her new memoir.
The Middle East is the most volatile area in the world. We now know that it is also the cradle of Al Qaeda and extremism…We didn’t go to Iraq to bring democracy to the Iraqis…We were very clear about this. This was a security threat. And I, as much as anybody, understand and really regret the cost, particularly in lives. But I also know that nothing of value is ever won without sacrifice.
Chie Davis interview
Rowell talks to Chie Davis at Rowell’s Hollywood Hills home about the actress’ foster care advocacy and her foster care upbringing, her time on The Young and the Restless, her strong activism regarding having racial diversity in daytime, and her home life in her 1920’s estate.
I believe that if your space can not rejuvenate you — you can not go outside your front door and do your best work.
Draya interview
Williams interviews Basketball Wives star Draya and questions how she came to fame and the difference between Draya and Kim Kardassian.
Both of you have had your come-up on your backs. Here’s the difference, Draya, Draya’s people and Draya’s fans: Kim owns how she came up. Kim then got a machine behind her, led by her mother and the rest of her family, and has swapped America with some Jedi mind trick where we now love the Kardashians for good, for bad or indifferent.
Elle Magazine interview
Shatner gives interview to Elle about any advice he would like to give his younger self if he could.
I’m gonna reveal something to you that’s going to come as a shock: If you’re a stupid young man, you’re usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
Helped sharpen Dropbox pitch
Houston talks about how Graham gave the founders advice to distil their initial idea. That eventually led to a live demonstration where they deleted a Power Point in front of a live audience, and then restored it from the website.
One of the things we really struggled with early on….we made a list of dozens of things it was good for, our first marketing attempt was sort of throwing spaghetti at the wall. We struggled on how to articulate [the uses] to investor.
Office Hours speech
Graham sits down with aspiring founders at the Y Combinator event, and talks them through their business ideas. He talks about how Wozniak and Gates both got their ideas from solving problems that they faced:
A lot of people decide, I want to start a startup, I need to think of an idea for a startup…The best startup ideas don’t come from people trying to think of startup ideas, they come from people trying to solve problems…All the biggest startups, they tend to come from problems that the founders themselves have.
Alyssa Milano interview
Milano is interviewed for a Cause Save the Whales.
I’d like there to be whales for my baby to see.
CNN Money interview
Arrington acknowledges that he doesn’t know any black tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, despite covering the industry. Still, he says, the industry is based largely on merit:
It’s not a pure meritocracy here [but] you can become very successful based on your brain size and how you use it
WWE Magazine interview
Johnson talks to WWE Magazine about stunt work in film and how it compares to in-ring action in the WWE.
Both are grueling and very physical. There are many comparisons that I can draw between the two, but what hits home is this: toughness and passion. Both my fellow Superstars and fellow Hollywood stuntmen are incredibly tough mothers who are driven by an amazing passion to perform
Maxim Interview
Riesgraf talks about doing stunts and her character Parker’s personality on the TNT show Leverage:
Probably running on top of a moving train. Thank God I didn’t trip. I was wearing Dr. Martens! I know a lot of crazy girls, and I know a lot of great guys who love crazy girls. A little bit of crazy is exciting, but too much becomes a pain in the ass.
The Observer interview
Waits speaks about his life and his music from near his hometown of Santa Rosa, California.
I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3am. So my first studio experiences, I wanted to be recording after the bars closed. I just thought that’s when it all happened. And it worked for me for a while, I guess. But I don’t believe that so much any more. I realise now there’s more than one way to sneak up on a herd of cattle.
Phylicia Rashad interview
Rashad talks about her series Psych and what it is like working on a series vs. theater.
In theater you have that performance to do the entire thing.
Maxim Interview
Hasleth talks about getting her start in politics:
Well I first became interested in politics during the last presidential election. So many people in the community were taking the stance of it doesn’t really matter who we vote for because no one is going to represent us. I thought, You know that’s not really true, we just have to elect the right person. I decided to get involved and I started volunteering on campaigns.
The Talks interview
Hopkins gives an interview to The Talks. He discusses actors being more sensitive, directors that inspire him, and being obsessed by acting.
I used to be a bit obsessed by it but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it’s easier. I can’t work in the theater because to me it’s too serious. It’s like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can’t do it. I’d rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.
The Art of Wrestling interview
Masters is a guest on The Art of Wrestling to discuss wrestling training and WWE.
I never doubted that what I wanted to do was wrestle. I trained on the bad ankle for two months and just though it’d get better. Then I had to have surgery and get it grafted.
Sasha Pieterse interview
Seacrest interviews Pieterse during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and asks her if she ever gets mistaken for Denise Richards.
Oh my gosh, all the time! They always think I’m either like her daughter or her, which is really funny. It is usually older men hitting on me, but hey.
Maxim Interview
Amoia discusses her role in the movie American Reunion:
I play Thomas Ian Nicholas’s (Kevin) wife, and basically you see his mature relationship with me, and then the contrast of the first love feelings that come up when he sees Vicki [Tara Reid] at the reunion. So he has a little bit of a conflict with that. And then all three of us meet…It was great.
ESPN 980 interview
Hopkins talks about his upcoming fight with Dawson:
He has a lot of things that makes a great fighter once he realizes that he can put those things together and becomes experience as time goes on, but he bit off something really big before he got there and that is the Executioner Bernard Hopkins. See he will never get a chance to blossom because he was picked off the tree too quick. If the sun and rain would’ve gotten to him a little more, it’s timing, he would’ve been okay, but he ran into the same fate of greed and politics and rushed to get into the light heavyweight championship around your waste and you accomplish it and say ‘okay I’m there’ and you don’t keep it.
Elle Magazine interview
Drake gives interview to Elle about pretending to be married to Nicki Minaj on Twitter.
I don’t know if we were really pretending. I’d marry Nicki. I think Nicki would be one of the only people that would understand me at the end of all this and be able to love me.