''I started in movies by doing small student films in New York and waitressing, two very important talents to have as an actor.'' -- Sandra Bullock on America Online

''A [video] director hears a song and devises images to enhance the song, writes a treatment describing those ideas, haggles with the artist's manager and the record label about the budget, shoots a compromised version of his vision, puts most of his fee into the work, and then gets ignored at the video awards.'' -- Mark Romanek, director of Michael Jackson's ''Scream'' and Madonna's ''Bedtime Story,'' on America Online

''[The] Police was the perfect parabola for a group. Nobody died, nobody got arrested, we all got rich.'' -- Stewart Copeland on the Internet


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