HLN's anchor Robin Meade - "News isn't always good. We are the guardians of what you hear."

Morgan Freeman - "When he (Nelson Mandela) said he'd prefer I be the one to play him...I had to start then (preparing for the role). I contacted him shortly afterwards. I said I have to have access to you, touch your hand."

Jamie Foxx - "I learned how to sing by teaching people. Music was my passion. I didn't know I had a voice. I was minister of music (at his grandmother's church) for the choir and I would teach people parts (alto, tenor, soprano, etc...)."

Jermaine Dupri - "If I am going to work with you I am going to bring out what I think you have in you or I am not going to work with you"

Bill Duke(actor/director) - "It (a project) has to touch me emotionally, if it does, then it will touch my audience also on an emotional level. I have to feel something and I do everything I can to make the audience feel it also."

Raven-Symone' - "My career started when I was 16 months old, I was modeling and we moved to New York and I was signed to the Ford Agency. At an audition for "Ghost Dad" (starring Bill Crosby) Sidney Poitier was in the room and told Bill Crosby, ‘you need to see her,' I was three years old and that's how I got on the Crosby Show."

Nick Cannon - "Oprah has her network, why can't I have mine." (Concerning his position as CEO of Nickelodeon's new TeenNick Network)

Shad "Bow Wow" Moss - "What you see is all Bow Wow." (Concerning his role in the film The Lottery Ticket)

JoJo - "We put our dirty clothes in the front yard. Look but don't judge. Maybe we can stop someone from going through that." (On his brother K-Ci and himself starring in a TV One reality show to "come clean" of alcoholism.)

Will.i.am (Black Eye Peas) - "At this point of time in American history the NAACP has to push even harder than it did before. Blacks being able to vote and Obama in the White-House...!! Quincy Jones, Berry White and Berry Gordy forced America to acknowledge black artists."

ShirleyCaesar - "Gospel music is a big business, bigger than classical, blues and country because there are so many facets of it, from Blue Grass Gospel to Contemporary Gospel."