"...People like me can come from nowhere, the son of a mill worker…and now be running for president of the United States and pay $400 for a haircut!"
- John Edwards tells a crowd in Iowa [from an anecdote in the new issue of Men's Vogue]

“I’m in love with you Anderson Cooper. Hold me, touch me inappropriately, Anderson Cooper. Come to my home tonight and love me.”
- Kathy Griffin on "Larry King Live"

"I wanted [Edna] to look like Sophia Loren if you added 200lb. I wanted her to be a sexy bombshell who was fun to look at....It must have worked since guys from the crew were hitting on me. I was so flirted with and so groped! I was convinced I was a slut because I was like: 'Go ahead - touch me! I don't care!' But as soon as I took it all off, there was a real coolness, like: 'Oh well, it's just him. I liked the other person more.'"
- John Travolta, on his transformation into Edna Turnblad for "Hairspray"

"I don't know who should replace [Rosie] but I don't think it should be Paris Hilton. That would not work."
- Ellen DeGeneres, backstage at last week's Emmys

"He will prove himself to be the biggest homophobe and the biggest friend to the gay man in the history of humanity."
- Jeremy Piven at the "Entourage" premiere about his toxic character Ari

"Good for them for daring to do that because it used to be you'd lose your job. People had to hide. I mean look at what Rock Hudson had to go through. He had to get married or else he wouldn't have had a career. I'm hoping, though, that we'll come to the time when it doesn't matter. We just say, "This is who I am," and that's that."
- out actor John Glover (Smallville) on the recent high-profile comings-out of stars like Neil Patrick Harris and T.R. Knight

"It is high time they put a gay man on that panel. They've said 'We can't put a man here.' I disagree. Why does it have to be guys against girls? I have a better time and solve more problems sitting with my gay guy friends than my girlfriends!"
- former "View" co-host Debbie Matenopoulos on who should replace Rosie