Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Usher Prepares For Role as Boxing Champ

Plus personal thoughts from Game, Swizz Beatz and more.

Usher on preparing for playing the role of boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard  - "I'm actually in preparation for a very incredible role. I'm in preparation later this year to play the role of Sugar Ray Leonard in a boxing film and it's going to be incredible." (Photo: PacificCoastNews.com)

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Usher on preparing for playing the role of boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard  - "I'm actually in preparation for a very incredible role. I'm in preparation later this year to play the role of Sugar Ray Leonard in a boxing film and it's going to be incredible." (Photo: PacificCoastNews.com)

Khloe Kardashian on quitting PETA for supporting woman who threw flour on Kim K:   - “I’ve been a vocal supporter of PETA for a long time but I have also been very vocal about anti-bullying, so this was a huge disappointment for me. As you all know, I don’t condone violence and bullying and what happened last Thursday was just that."(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Khloe Kardashian on quitting PETA for supporting woman who threw flour on Kim K:   - “I’ve been a vocal supporter of PETA for a long time but I have also been very vocal about anti-bullying, so this was a huge disappointment for me. As you all know, I don’t condone violence and bullying and what happened last Thursday was just that."(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Game - "Last tweet of the day: Rest in Paradise to a GOOD FRIEND & legendary hip hop icon Dwight Arrington "Heavy D" Myers. Damn life sometimes !!!" (Photo: Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup)

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Game on 50 Cent and suicide:  - "I wanted to kill 50 Cent, for real, and I thought there was a strong possibility that I would die. I ended up being all alone, contemplating suicide." (Photo: Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup)

Lil' Kim on why she hasn’t been put out music over the last few years:  - “When I came home from prison in 2006, I was really unhappy with my label so I wanted to get off, and I didn’t get released. I wasn’t dropped. I had to pay them… For two years, I fought and fought … and finally there was a break. During those two years, I did my Hollywood thing.” (Photo: John Ricard/BET)

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Lil' Kim on why she hasn’t been put out music over the last few years:  - “When I came home from prison in 2006, I was really unhappy with my label so I wanted to get off, and I didn’t get released. I wasn’t dropped. I had to pay them… For two years, I fought and fought … and finally there was a break. During those two years, I did my Hollywood thing.” (Photo: John Ricard/BET)

Aretha Franklin: March 25 - The soul legend looks amazing on her 70th birthday. (Photo: Morris Melvin/PictureGroup)

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Aretha Franklin on reuniting with music titan Clive Davis:  - “I have re-signed with Clive Davis, so I’m recording with Clive again. We’re going to sit together and decide what it is we’re going to record.” (Photo: Morris Melvin/PictureGroup)

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Tami Roman - Call this actress a reality TV pioneer starting out on the second season of MTV’s Real World in 1993. Her acting career hasn’t produced any majorly memorable moments, but her tumultuous return to reality via Basketball Wives gave the TV genre its new reigning queen of bitchie-ness. The ingredients?  Tami plus alcohol equals an angry drunken fight. After taking a long hiatus from reality TV, Tami's recently returned to the Basketball Wives cast and is already putting her fists to use. (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Tami Roman on her recent health scare:  - “Never thought I’d have a mild heart attack at 41. God has a way of bringing things into perspective. Finally going home to my kids—heart meds and all.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Raven-Symoné on playing the lead on Broadway in Sister Act:  - “Egotistically speaking—like, beyond egotistical—I’ve been very prepared in a sense to carry a show, being on That’s So Raven and with the different characters that I’ve done.” (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

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Raven-Symoné on playing the lead on Broadway in Sister Act:  - “Egotistically speaking—like, beyond egotistical—I’ve been very prepared in a sense to carry a show, being on That’s So Raven and with the different characters that I’ve done.” (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Kendra Wilkinson on having no discernable talents:   - "I just say what I do. I have no talent. I have nothing to offer." (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Kendra Wilkinson on having no discernable talents:   - "I just say what I do. I have no talent. I have nothing to offer." (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Swizz Beatz on wife Alicia Keys’s upcoming album:  - “The topics that she’s speaking about are super deep and from the heart, and to me what music has been missing.”(Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Swizz Beatz on wife Alicia Keys’s upcoming album:  - “The topics that she’s speaking about are super deep and from the heart, and to me what music has been missing.”(Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Geraldo Rivera on Trayvon Martin’s death:  - “The hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon’s Death as Zimmerman." (Photo: Donna Ward/Getty Images)

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Geraldo Rivera on Trayvon Martin’s death:  - “The hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon’s Death as Zimmerman." (Photo: Donna Ward/Getty Images)

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Trecina "Tina" Atkins-Campbell on the possible end to Mary Mary: - “It gets overwhelming. We have to agree on everything. We have to manage personal and professional, and it just gets hard, but we know that what we have together is greater together than it is apart." (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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Trecina "Tina" Atkins-Campbell on the possible end to Mary Mary: - “It gets overwhelming. We have to agree on everything. We have to manage personal and professional, and it just gets hard, but we know that what we have together is greater together than it is apart." (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)