Word For Word - April 25, 2008

"I would be very proud to have a baby. So it will come soon. I think about it all the time, and it's something that's a very exciting prospect for me." -- Kimora Lee Simmons

Jon Kopaloff, FilmMagic.com

"My life is f---ed up right now. I'm in a f---ed up place. My fans love me, and I know what they want but in a minute, I'm not gonna be physically capable of pleasing the world with music. Because my mind isn't right. People are driving me under God's good earth." -- The Game told XXL magazine,


Nick Ut, AP

"I'm trying to be careful how I say this without inciting this person, but I have a stalker. This person sends several hundred emails a day to my office and has planned our wedding and bought rings and such. She has showed up at my house several times. What's crazy is I've never met this woman, nor have I even responded to her emails. I've had to increase the guards at my house as well as travel with bodyguards and I hate that. I hate to have big guys following me around." -- Tyler Perry wrote on his blog.

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"I do not rap on any of these things. I wouldn't know how to fix my mouth to say some of the words." -- Bill Cosby, on his new hip-hop album, which contains rhymes provided by guest rappers.

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"I think the thing I miss most about The Price Is Right is the applause. I retract that, the thing I miss most about The Price Is Right is the money." -- Retired host Bob Barker


Kevore Djansezian, AP

"I'm sorry, really, that the press gave such a negative report of the situation that his family had to deal with. The reason was sickle cell anemia, he only had three (dog) bites on him. Even the coroner said there was no way the dogs could have done that (killed him). I would just like the media to make an apology ..." -- Ving Rhames, breaks down the truth behind his caretaker's death last year.

Stephen Chernin, AP

''Mandie is my best friend. We still love each other and we are raising our beautiful daughter Maile together as a team.'' -- Wayne Brady said in a statement issued by his publicist.

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"My comments about 'gangsta rap' were in no way trying to suggest that the government is responsible for creating this genre of rap music." -- Alicia Keys, saying comments she made in a Blender magazine interview were misrepresented.

Jon Kopaloff, FilmMagic.com

"They're a perfect couple. He's got a last name that's just a letter. And she's got no last name. So that's fabulous, that's a perfect melding." -- Today Show's Al Roker, on Jay-Z and Beyoncé's marriage.



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"(It) takes place in 1975, so I got some cool mustard tight pants with a chocolate shirt with a big collar." -- Mario Lopez, on making his Broadway debut in a revival of "A Chorus Line."

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