I said I'm going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything's workable. If Trump is president, I'll work with that guy.

ACTOR JEFF BRIDGES on the United States presidential campaign

I was like: 'I can play anything you throw at me, Stephen. Lang Lang needs to watch his back.' So I basically lied.

THE BIG BANG THEORY ACTOR SIMON HELBERG, whose piano skills landed him in the Stephen Frears movie Florence Foster Jenkins

There's the working-class immigrant in me thinking, 'This is not a real job, so I've got to make it as complicated as possible.'

BRITISH-PAKISTANI ACTOR-RAPPER RIZ AHMED on why he obsessively tweaks his verses