“It got so when I left, only God or the pope could get confirmed. And I’m not so sure about the pope.”
–ousted U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, in USA Today, on the politicization of the office that has not had a permanent holder since 1994
“Everybody I know does them. It’s the dirty little secret in this town.”
–actress Lea Thompson, on using old Jane Fonda workout tapes to keep fit
“Our society of professional journalists (threw) a hissy fit about qualifications and standards, or lack thereof. . .as though no one with a lack of qualifications or standards had ever bought his way into our industry before.”
–broadcaster Ted Koppel, on colleagues’ reactions to the announcement that U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari will become a CBS Saturday morning news anchor
“It’s an estrogen rush.”
–actress Sharon Lawrence, on NBC’s plan to to move her show, “Fired Up,” and others with female leads, to Monday nights
“I loved high school. We’re talking loved. I thought it was hilarious. I loved my friends, I loved coming home on the bus when it was raining out — everything. It just felt so — homey.”
–actress Meg Ryan, who was homecoming queen at her Fairfield, Conn., high school, in W
