Yes, I Did Say That!
A look at who’s sayin g wh at in enter tain mentQuotesAbout Town
FLASHBACK!
Did I
Really
Say
That?
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 30 JULY 31, 2019
GADSBY: EMMA MCINTYRE/GETTY IMAGES FOR NETFLIX. HOLT: NOAM GALAI/GETTY IMAGES FOR GLOBAL CITIZEN. MCGILLIS: LARRY BUSACCA/GETTYIMAGES. SANDERS: STEVE ROGERS PHOTOGRAPHY/GETTY IMAGES FOR SXSW. FRANKEN: DIA DIPASUPIL/GETTY IMAGES.Compiled by Michael O’Connell“The idea that
creative control
was taken from a
director is just
a false premise.”
CASEY BLOYS
The HBO programming president
at a July 24 panel with the
Television Critics Association,
insisting that reports that
Big Little Lies director Andrea
Arnold was re-edited are full
of “misinformation.”“Don’t go on a diet.
Get a tailor.”
HANNAH GADSBY
The comedian, onstage at the July 23 Broadway
opening of her new one-woman show,
explaining the lesson she learned from watching
her Emmy-nominated Netflix special, Nanette.“They’ve helped
me discover
my inner rocker.”
LESTER HOLT
The NBC News anchor, in The
New York Times, discussing
his side gig fronting the band
Rough Cuts and crediting
his bandmates (most of them
Dateline editors) with
expanding his musical tastes.“If he stepped
out of his limo and
found himself
suddenly a racial
minority,
he’d wet himself.”
DAVID SIMON
The showrunner and former
Baltimore Sun staffer, on Twitter,
calling out the president for
a July 27 Twitter rant in which
Trump called the largely black
Maryland city an “infested mess.”“She is deeply
concerned
with what’s
happening.”
BERNIE SANDERS
The presidential
candidate, on Jimmy Kimmel
Live!, discussing his
recent political conversations
with rapper Cardi B.“That show is
amazing.”
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
The Once Upon a Time
in Hollywood star,
to People at the film’s
July 21 premiere,
revealing himself to be a
fan of HBO’s explicit
teen drama Euphoria.“I’m old and I’m
fat and I look
age appropriate.”
KELLY MCGILLIS
The To p G u n actress, on
Entertainment Tonight,
revealing she wasn’t asked
to appear in the sequel
Top Gun: Maverick — and isn’t
interested in “that
whole scene” anyway.“I didn’t have
an easy life.”
RYAN ADAMS
The singer-songwriter,
on Instagram after
a months-long silence,
responding to accusations
of sexual misconduct
and emotional abuse.DEC. 7, 2017
“All women deserve to be heard
and their experiences taken seriously.”
AL FRANKEN
The former senator, in his resignation speech amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
In a July 22 New Yorker story, he says he now regrets resigning: “The idea that anybody
who accuses someone of something is always right ... that isn’t reality.”