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18 Oct, 2013

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Velasquez talks about his upcoming remtach against Junior dos Santos at UFC 66 for the UFC Heavyweight Title:

There’s a little added to it, especially with dos Santos being the type of fighter he is and how good he is. We’re two of the best guys in this division. We’re both out there hungry and we both want to win. He’s fast. He’s still strong. He has good technique. He was tough. Overall, he’s a tough dude. I’m expecting a tougher fight for this time.

15 Oct, 2013

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Voight speaks about what drew him to the role of Van Helsing in the movie Dracula: The Dark Prince:

I thought it had a nice story to it, that there was something in it that was on the positive side of things. And I thought this character that they wanted me to do was sketched in. I thought maybe I could bring something to it. So that’s why I did it.

1 Oct, 2013

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Howard talks about why he wanted to direct the movie Rush, a film about Formula 1 racing in the 1970s:

The first movie I did that was inspired by true events was Apollo 13. We had a preview screening, and the audience comment cards were great. I was very excited. But suddenly I came to one that marked it ‘poor.’ In big giant letters the guy wrote, ‘More Hollywood bullshit. They would never survive!’ I realized then that’s the beauty of a true story.

24 Sep, 2013

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Drake gives his thoughts on his new album Nothing Was The Same:

I think I’ve found a way to successfully blend my melodic side and my rap side. I think that’s why it comes off a bit tougher, because there are no ballads on there like the last album. There’s not really any down moments, even when I’m singing – I chose to take a more aggressive stance while in production and during recording. It’s not tougher in a way where you are going to hear a bunch of gun and drug raps; it’s just a bit tougher in the sense that it’s got an energy coursing through it, and I’m really excited about that.

17 Sep, 2013

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Lee gives his thoughts on his role in the movie Mallrats:

Oh, that wasn’t a cameo! I was one of the stars, shame on you. But I enjoyed it tremendously and I enjoyed Kevin Smith, we got along beautifully. Tell you a funny thing about it, though – in the movie, I’m supposed to be telling somebody that they shouldn’t feel bad about losing a girl because I had lost a girl once and I still remember her and blah blah blah. I went home and my wife said, What’s this about that girl you were talking about? And I said, Honey, it’s just movie! But it took me a while to pacify her.

12 Sep, 2013

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Gervais talks about his Netflix series Derek:

I have folded a few stories in, but they’re not so much strict stories as things in general. I’ve got 20 or 30 years of stories, some funny and some really sad. I just thought, it’s such rich, fertile ground because these people have lived ordinary yet extraordinary lives, every one. I find it fascinating that you’ve lived on this planet for 80 years and what you’ve seen, the changes you’ve seen. And it’s just the best backdrop for Derek because it’s sort of a show about kindness.

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Barinholtz talks about his role as Morgan Tookers on the show The Mindy Project:

When you first meet him he’s so crazy. He’s got this giant tattoo and he’s a crazy person. But then he started appearing more and more, and he started being more human. Especially when he was doing dumb things and you started to see the ramifications of that, like when he mailed Danny’s letter to [his ex-wife] and Danny [Chris Messina] had to fire him. The good thing about him is that at his core, he’s an idiot. So even though he does have some humanity, he’s a moron.

10 Sep, 2013

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Hall talks about his return as a late night television and how he’s coming back to an entirely different era:

There were no cell phones when I started. I’m coming back to a whole other era. I broke Billy Ray Cyrus and Achy Breaky Heart, and now Miley Cyrus is out there smoking weed! The guys younger than me, that’s their world. The guys older than me, like Jay Leno, might not see concrete evidence of online popularity translating to hard numbers, so they’re not so into it.

9 Sep, 2013

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Duplass gives his thoughts on the 5th season of The League:

We’re at Andre and Trixie’s wedding weekend. It’s a double episode to start things off, which is really fun. We haven’t done that before. Everybody’s together and we get to meet Ted for the first time. He’s been this faceless member of the league. In terms of where the characters are at, one of the best things about this show for me is they don’t f-cking change. They are puerile and infantile and immature, and really love making fun of each other and trying to verbally eviscerate each other with whatever ammo they can find. In that sense it’s definitely more of the same.

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Rickles gives his thoughts on his brand of humor and what it takes to be a good insult comic:

There’s no trick; it’s an attitude. Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody and they’d laugh at it. It’s nothing you can rehearse—it was just in my personality. By the way, I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew eventually I’d have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.

4 Sep, 2013

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Rivers talks about winning The Celebrity Apprentice 2 and her relationship with Donald Trump:

Huge! Don’t ever underestimate him. I can’t even do a joke about him. So smart, so smart, so smart. He sold me the Brooklyn Bridge, and I’m still happy about it. He’s a genius showman. He’s in the category of P. T. Barnum.

22 Aug, 2013

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Anthony discusses the charity work that his foundation does:

We started this foundation maybe six or seven years ago. But for me, it was always more about getting into the nitty-gritty of things and giving back to the underprivileged neighborhoods, refurbishing neighborhoods and basketball courts, and just giving kids in the community that feeling once again. There’s no more community feeling out there, and for me it’s about trying to get that back.

21 Aug, 2013

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Jericho talks about his participation in the web series Jon Davis Gets A Sex Robot:

It actually all came about through Eli Roth, who introduced me to Jon Davis, who I hung out with a few times – he was a screenwriter in Hollywood, one of those guys that’s always been around doing stuff for years. He was hooked up with somebody that was involved with Justin Lin’s new YouTube Channel, YOMYOMF – which stands for You Offend Me, You Offend My Family, which must be some kind of a Bruce Lee thing.

15 Aug, 2013

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Black talks about the comedians that he looks up to:

Inside, it would be Carlin, Pryor, Lenny Bruce – and then guys like Shelley Berman and Bob Newhart. Then outside of it, it was like – not really, because he kind of straddles it – Paul Krassner who was the editor of The Realist and does a lot of satirical writing. He’s very funny. And then there is Kurt Vonnegut.

13 Aug, 2013

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Musk talks about coming along at the right time to start his business ventures:

Yeah, I feel like I’m here at the right time. If not for the Internet, where it’s possible to start with no capital and end up with a valuable company, it would have taken me a long time to build up these other businesses. It’s important to remember that being a good global citizen and a good businessman are not mutually exclusive.

9 Aug, 2013

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Paul gives his thoughts to Maxim about the end of Breaking Bad:

Ha! I’m not telling you anything about the show! I would say, It’s been a fun ride. Thanks for having me to the party. And to my beautiful wife, I will miss you forever, my pretty little bird. I can’t wait to haunt the shit out of you!

31 Jul, 2013

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Martin talks about how he got the role of Louis in the movie In A World…:

I’ve known Lake a little bit over the years. I probably met her six or seven years ago at a comedy party in L.A. or New York, but it tends to be a small world, when you meet this friend and they were in a movie with that friend or did a sketch thing or something, so she was in my orbit of friends. And I guess it was last summer that I got the script, and my agent said, Hey, Lake Bell’s making this movie and you might be right for this part here, and I read it and said, Yeah this would be great. And it was cool, it worked out, and it was like a 20-day shoot. And I’ve been in L.A. for a bit now so it wasn’t too far from where I was living.

16 Jul, 2013

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McHale gives his thoughts on hosting the television show The Soup:

I’m the male version of Chelsea Handler. She does the same. I would liken it to a comedian that also acts. I see The Soup as kind of like a long late-night monologue that has a lot of clips in it. I took The Soup because—or rather, they offered it to me and I accepted—not just because of money, but because of the Greg Kinnear pedigree, where he transitioned from Talk Soup into acting, though at this point I’m not transitioning, I’m doing both (thank God). And when people see me on Community, I think they see that I can do both.

10 Jul, 2013

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Clay discusses starring in the Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine:

Simple. I get a call from my manager saying Woody has a part he thinks I’d be great for. I walk in, talk to the guy for five minutes, and the next thing I know I’m filming. The coolest f-cking guy. We talked about Brooklyn, Brighton Beach. I’d never met him before and never thought I’d work with him. Then we’re hanging out on set, talking comedy.

9 Jul, 2013

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Biggs discusses starring in the show Orange Is The New Black:

I heard from my agent that Jenji Kohan [creator of Weeds] was doing a new show, and that it was going to be for Netflix. Those two things, right away I was like, Oh my God, that’s super exciting! I’m a huge fan of Jenji’s and I’m really excited about Netflix and what they’re doing over there. My ears perked up and I was like, how do I get involved? So I auditioned and they brought me back to read with Taylor Schilling and we had great chemistry, and that was it.