Ruben Studdard

People don’t have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people’s opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

That had her lip-syncing to a record… There was no protection for her as a person or as an artist…

Trump hasn’t said one crazy thing, he’s said thousands of crazy things, each of which blunts the effect of the others.

[on Frank Sinatra] He was a compassionate guy. He loved to have fun. He had a movie theatre in his house. We munched on popcorn and watched movies together.

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort- and it was cute.

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a socialist.

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

No other formula gives your baby a better start at life except that stuff that comes out of you for free.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It’s not forbidden anymore.

I can be sent a pop song, a reggae song, a rap song or an RandB song, and people know that Nicki Minaj is gonna deliver something special every time

Do your thing and don’t care if they don’t like it.

I’ve got this brilliant thing where I go, “I’m Robbie Williams”, and people are interested in what I want to say – which is amazing because I’m just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.

You can never say you’re big – I don’t think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

Politics: ‘Poli’a Latin word meaning ‘many’; and “tics” meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’.

I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it – Hammertime – I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don’t make cartoons like that anymore.