Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Usher Prepares For Role as Boxing Champ
Plus personal thoughts from Game, Swizz Beatz and more.
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Usher on preparing for playing the role of boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard - "I'm actually in preparation for a very incredible role. I'm in preparation later this year to play the role of Sugar Ray Leonard in a boxing film and it's going to be incredible." (Photo: PacificCoastNews.com)
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Khloe Kardashian on quitting PETA for supporting woman who threw flour on Kim K: - “I’ve been a vocal supporter of PETA for a long time but I have also been very vocal about anti-bullying, so this was a huge disappointment for me. As you all know, I don’t condone violence and bullying and what happened last Thursday was just that."(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
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Game on 50 Cent and suicide: - "I wanted to kill 50 Cent, for real, and I thought there was a strong possibility that I would die. I ended up being all alone, contemplating suicide." (Photo: Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup)
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Lil' Kim on why she hasn’t been put out music over the last few years: - “When I came home from prison in 2006, I was really unhappy with my label so I wanted to get off, and I didn’t get released. I wasn’t dropped. I had to pay them… For two years, I fought and fought … and finally there was a break. During those two years, I did my Hollywood thing.” (Photo: John Ricard/BET)
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Aretha Franklin on reuniting with music titan Clive Davis: - “I have re-signed with Clive Davis, so I’m recording with Clive again. We’re going to sit together and decide what it is we’re going to record.” (Photo: Morris Melvin/PictureGroup)
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Tami Roman on her recent health scare: - “Never thought I’d have a mild heart attack at 41. God has a way of bringing things into perspective. Finally going home to my kids—heart meds and all.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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Raven-Symoné on playing the lead on Broadway in Sister Act: - “Egotistically speaking—like, beyond egotistical—I’ve been very prepared in a sense to carry a show, being on That’s So Raven and with the different characters that I’ve done.” (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
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Kendra Wilkinson on having no discernable talents: - "I just say what I do. I have no talent. I have nothing to offer." (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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Swizz Beatz on wife Alicia Keys’s upcoming album: - “The topics that she’s speaking about are super deep and from the heart, and to me what music has been missing.”(Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
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Geraldo Rivera on Trayvon Martin’s death: - “The hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon’s Death as Zimmerman." (Photo: Donna Ward/Getty Images)
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