Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Bobby Brown on the Media Publishing False Reports About Bobbi Kristina

Plus, words from Rosie Perez and Idris Elba.

Bobby Brown on the false reports about Bobbi Kristina Brown: - “If we issued a statement every time the media published a false report regarding this matter, that's all we would be doing 24 hours a day. This is false, just as is the vast majority of the other reporting that is currently taking place."(Photo: Fred Prouser/Reuters/Corbis)

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Bobby Brown on the false reports about Bobbi Kristina Brown: - “If we issued a statement every time the media published a false report regarding this matter, that's all we would be doing 24 hours a day. This is false, just as is the vast majority of the other reporting that is currently taking place."(Photo: Fred Prouser/Reuters/Corbis)

David Oyelowo on Black people being celebrated more for ‘subservient’ roles: - “Historically, and this is truly my feeling, generally speaking we as Black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or kings, or being in the center or our own narrative driving it forward.”(Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images for The Santa Barbara International Film Festival)

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David Oyelowo on Black people being celebrated more for ‘subservient’ roles: - “Historically, and this is truly my feeling, generally speaking we as Black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or kings, or being in the center or our own narrative driving it forward.”(Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images for The Santa Barbara International Film Festival)

Common on Beyoncé performing with him and John Legend at the 2015 Grammys: - “We do have an incredible introduction to our performance. A segue into our song ‘Glory,’ as a tribute to Selma, being done by the great Beyoncé. That’s one of the greatest talents you can have, helping us segue into it. To co-create a performance with someone like her. It’s good.”(Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Rag & Bone)

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Common on Beyoncé performing with him and John Legend at the 2015 Grammys: - “We do have an incredible introduction to our performance. A segue into our song ‘Glory,’ as a tribute to Selma, being done by the great Beyoncé. That’s one of the greatest talents you can have, helping us segue into it. To co-create a performance with someone like her. It’s good.”(Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Rag & Bone)

Rosie Perez on Whitney Houston biopic and Bobbi Kristina Brown's recent tragedy: - "I just thought that movie that came out, and this is no disrespect to Angela Bassett because I love Angela Bassett, but an unauthorized biography of her mom… it must have killed her… Let me take that back. It must’ve really hurt her deeply to watch that. We forget that these people are human beings. We sit there and we talk about people and put these people in tabloids and we forget we’re human beings.”(Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images)

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Rosie Perez on Whitney Houston biopic and Bobbi Kristina Brown's recent tragedy: - "I just thought that movie that came out, and this is no disrespect to Angela Bassett because I love Angela Bassett, but an unauthorized biography of her mom… it must have killed her… Let me take that back. It must’ve really hurt her deeply to watch that. We forget that these people are human beings. We sit there and we talk about people and put these people in tabloids and we forget we’re human beings.”(Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images)

Kerry Washington on working in a mom-friendly environment and bringing her daughter Isabelle to work: - "I'm really blessed because my daughter gets to be at work with me a lot so that’s really fun and wonderful. Everybody at work really likes it. She brings a lot of joy wherever she is so it's fun to have her around."(Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images for The Limited)

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Kerry Washington on working in a mom-friendly environment and bringing her daughter Isabelle to work: - "I'm really blessed because my daughter gets to be at work with me a lot so that’s really fun and wonderful. Everybody at work really likes it. She brings a lot of joy wherever she is so it's fun to have her around."(Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images for The Limited)

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Kenya Moore on if she stole Vivica Foxx's phone, comparing her to Maleficent: - "I don't think I needed to send out a tweet or take someone's phone to win. I was a strong player from the beginning. So I didn't need to resort to such ridiculousness… Nobody talks about her face... I never attack women on their looks. I have been a natural girl. I've never tried to turn myself into Maleficent. But if I ever need a little tune up or need to go to the doctor I don't judge....but go have some good work."(Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Kenya Moore on if she stole Vivica Foxx's phone, comparing her to Maleficent: - "I don't think I needed to send out a tweet or take someone's phone to win. I was a strong player from the beginning. So I didn't need to resort to such ridiculousness… Nobody talks about her face... I never attack women on their looks. I have been a natural girl. I've never tried to turn myself into Maleficent. But if I ever need a little tune up or need to go to the doctor I don't judge....but go have some good work."(Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Kevin Hart on his career philosophy and being passed by in comedy: - "If you stop, or even if you slow down, you're going to look up and realize that somebody has passed you... And that's my fear. It’s the fear of being passed or caught up to, you know?”(Photo: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

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Kevin Hart on his career philosophy and being passed by in comedy: - "If you stop, or even if you slow down, you're going to look up and realize that somebody has passed you... And that's my fear. It’s the fear of being passed or caught up to, you know?”(Photo: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

Idris Elba on his worst character trait: - "I’m lazy. I procrastinate awfully. There’s always so many things I’m supposed to be doing — for example, when I was shooting No Good Deed in Atlanta and preparing to play Nelson Mandela by reading his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Straight after that, I had an album to put out. So I am always saying; ‘I’ll do it, I’ll get to it…’”(Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

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Idris Elba on his worst character trait: - "I’m lazy. I procrastinate awfully. There’s always so many things I’m supposed to be doing — for example, when I was shooting No Good Deed in Atlanta and preparing to play Nelson Mandela by reading his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Straight after that, I had an album to put out. So I am always saying; ‘I’ll do it, I’ll get to it…’”(Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Sherri Shepherd on Katt Williams standing her up on a date: - "He asked me if I wanted to go golfing. I don’t golf. So I went out and bought a whole set of clubs. I bought the little sun visor. I bought a special golf wig. I bought the shoes, everything. He confirmed and everything. I sat there all day and waited, and waited, and waited… He acted like he didn’t stand me up! I said, ‘What happened?’ He was like, ‘I didn’t stand you up! I didn’t stand you up!’ He said it just like that!”(Photo: Said Elatab / Splash News)

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Sherri Shepherd on Katt Williams standing her up on a date: - "He asked me if I wanted to go golfing. I don’t golf. So I went out and bought a whole set of clubs. I bought the little sun visor. I bought a special golf wig. I bought the shoes, everything. He confirmed and everything. I sat there all day and waited, and waited, and waited… He acted like he didn’t stand me up! I said, ‘What happened?’ He was like, ‘I didn’t stand you up! I didn’t stand you up!’ He said it just like that!”(Photo: Said Elatab / Splash News)

Tracee Ellis Ross on having Diana Ross as a mom: - "Well, my mom was very glamorous, but that was her work world. Our home was filled with beautiful things. My mom had beautiful clothes; my mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her when she was wearing gorgeous, expensive things, and it was never an issue.”(Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Tracee Ellis Ross on having Diana Ross as a mom: - "Well, my mom was very glamorous, but that was her work world. Our home was filled with beautiful things. My mom had beautiful clothes; my mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her when she was wearing gorgeous, expensive things, and it was never an issue.”(Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Kevin McCall on being mad at Chris Brown and feeling trapped because of him: - "I was in a space where I was bitter and angry with Chris Brown and my career and being signed to him and feeling like he didn’t look out. Feeling like the label did me wrong. So I’m mad at everybody in the industry."(Photo: Noel Vasquez/Getty Images for Hennessy)

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Kevin McCall on being mad at Chris Brown and feeling trapped because of him: - "I was in a space where I was bitter and angry with Chris Brown and my career and being signed to him and feeling like he didn’t look out. Feeling like the label did me wrong. So I’m mad at everybody in the industry."(Photo: Noel Vasquez/Getty Images for Hennessy)

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Vanessa Simmons on how motherhood has changed her: - “I’m more organized than I have ever been. That spills over into my professional life as well. It’s most important for me to keep her at the top of the pyramid and let everything else happen as it may.”(Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Project Runway: THREADS)

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Vanessa Simmons on how motherhood has changed her: - “I’m more organized than I have ever been. That spills over into my professional life as well. It’s most important for me to keep her at the top of the pyramid and let everything else happen as it may.”(Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Project Runway: THREADS)

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Taraji P. Henson on Lil' Kim inspiring her character Cookie on Empire: - "Kim is everything. Today it’s Nicki Minaj, but Nicki Minaj got everything from Kim. Kim came on the scene and made everything change for women — she made it feminine and sexy and hardcore. She was a champion, and she’s certainly Cookie’s champion."(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Taraji P. Henson on Lil' Kim inspiring her character Cookie on Empire: - "Kim is everything. Today it’s Nicki Minaj, but Nicki Minaj got everything from Kim. Kim came on the scene and made everything change for women — she made it feminine and sexy and hardcore. She was a champion, and she’s certainly Cookie’s champion."(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)