Pictures: Overheard at Press Tour

"I don't think it violates any sacred cows. Boy does that sound filthy."

"I'm so sick of Betty White. I never liked her."

"They never break character."

“First let me start by telling you who the judges are going to be this year.”

“I really appreciate the question, but I'm not going to get into it.”

"Basically in a nutshell, Vanc-over." "Mitch - Sometimes things are better in tweets."

"The channel has come such a long way since they just did documentaries about foxes." "I think Fox might be a different channel in the UK."

"Don't be thrown by the way he said 'sitcom' …Why did you decide to do a 'crap-com'?"

"All of them want the spotlight to be on them." "I was talking."

"You'd like to think that they were impressed with the Jonas character on '24' and felt as badly as I did when I was blow up… but probably not."

"I sold it as 'Dallas' without cheese…I'd like to think we can go at least a couple seasons without hair-pulling cat fights, but we may run out of ideas very quickly and it will happen by episode six."

"It put me on the map. Maybe I was like a small city you'd never heard of, but on the map."

"If it's a failure, I think it's gonna be a spectacular failure."

"Is it possible to be in love with two women at once? I'd say five."

"The only thing I heard was 'Waa-waa waa-waa-waa.' "

"We're actors. We don't eat."

"You do know that sarcasm doesn't translate to print?"

"White blonde women, we all look the same."

"I thought they were having terrible fights, and they were just talking."

"I think she's prettier, she's 10 pounds lighter, she gets to be in the 2010s..."

"I might tell this story on a talkshow at some point... This is an absolute nightmare. I just want you guys to know I am starting to sweat."

"I can't wait to get big boobs."

"If my character on 'Numb3rs' was laconic, my character on 'The Whole Truth' is loquacious."

"I have a 16-year-old, and I can't imagine what it would be like if my 16-year-old could read my thoughts."

"I'm very happy not to be playing a minister."

"I want to start out by addressing the elephant in the room. And I am not talking about Binky here, because Binky will be coming home with me."

"I could easily get addicted to autopsies."

"I do look a lot like Jack Klugman."

"When I got out of the car, the bus driver said to me, "I know who you are, can I have your autograph?' "

"It was sad, but you know, F them."

"I spent seven years being politically correct on 'The West Wing,' and now I get to be wrong on so many levels."

"Are we anywhere near a question?"

"A lot of people talk about Detroit and haven't been there, yet have a negative impression of it. A lot of people talk about "Cop Rock" and tear it apart and a lot of them have never seen it. It's the Detroit of series. My heart will aways be with "Cop Rock."

If someone were to hypothetically say that this show traffics in a very large number of Indian stereotypes, would that person be right or wrong?

"I watched the pilot with my son who's 17. And afterwards, I asked him, 'Is this hilarious or offensive?' And he said, "Dad, it's hilarious because it is offensive.' Is he right?" "Does he have a spec script?"

"Blood puddle, butt crack bank, condom hat... and those are the classy ones."

I ended up trying to chat up the girl on the other end, because I thought she's Indian, great. My mom and dad will be really proud.

I usually get, "You're just too handsome."

"I don't mean to be a downer right off the bat..." "Then don't!"

They went with a person with a 300-pound ego instead -- and a 30-pound Afro.

"I love my lawyer. I hate everybody else's."

"I don’t think it’s spellable."

"L.A. is not nearly as interesting a city as New York..."

"Every TV show lives under a death sentence -- they just don't tell you the execution date."

"We all had the same fear -- we don't want to end up on show that drives people crazy."

"It’s great that you say 'we're not going to make you suffer like 'LOST,'' but are you going to make us suffer a little bit?"

"The corpse of his show is not even cold yet... Are you cheating at all on Jack?" “I don't feel we're cheating on Jack, because if we did one more terrible thing to him, L.A. would have exploded.”

"After the trauma of last season, how would you describe what you’re doing now?"

"I should also thank ABC for creating the headlines this time."

"Thank you, plant I put in the audience!"

"I though you were going to say how much are you breaking ground with Jewish actors." "We did it, guys, we did it!"

"My English was so bad that someone walked up to me in the street and said what's up, and I looked up."

"Wait, can we do a show where they're just in love? Are there people out there like that?"

"Don’t tell JJ, but I never really watched 'Alias'... I felt it was one of the most confusing shows ever. When I was working on 'Felicity' we would pass the writers from 'Alias' in the halls -- they would look confused and we would look angst-ridden."

"That is his humorous side."

"Steven's character sees the glass as half full, and Beverly sees the glass as an idiot."

"We know what the island is: Manhattan."

"The Greek economy collapsed, so that was a bonus for us."

"It's not necessarily difficult to get locations, but it takes a long time. You kind of feel like there's one, like, lady smoking a cigarette, like, processing one permit a day."

"Probably because there's no homeschooling cheerleading squad."

"Mom and dad are fighting..."

"We sometimes steal their craft service -- it's better than ours."

"It's about the character, about the story. It's not really about blush."

"People think that’s what we do – wake up, do kung fu, brush your teeth."

“Subtle...”

"They actually thought it was a dessert topping."

"Schwimmer said no."

"Last time I felt like a puppy in a clothes dryer."

"I mean, all parents make mistakes..."

"I don't lose sleep over the possibility that I'm advocating serial murder through my work…"

"This should not be your go-to place if you have just been diagnosed with cancer in terms of how to proceed."

"Why do we start to live beautifully when we get a death sentence?"

"It goes to show whatever plan you have for your life, you're wrong."

"It's nice to be on the same schedule."

"He's the only one with keys to that room."

"I don't mind the commute. I love my ranch and that lifestyle, but I love work. And I have a mortgage, so it works out really well."

"It was tough to get my father to the taping of the pilot. I was like, 'It would be great if you could come. It's sort of a big deal in my life.' He was like, 'Can I just stand in the back and come later?' I was like, 'Well, it's not a dance recital.'"

"He doesn't have the Internet on his computer. He doesn't like it. And, actually, ever since he saw the Sandra Bullock movie 'The Net,' it, like, scarred him for a different reason that it scarred everyone else."

"Do you know what I wish? I wish they would call it 'sht.' The word 'sht' is around us. It isn't a terrible term. It's a natural function. Why are we pussyfooting?"

"I existed before 'Star Trek.'"

"Third cousin by his mother's marriage."

"I can't even remember my password name."

“It would be a new experience because my wife would probably leave me…”

Jerry O’Connell: “I was buying those don’t-sleep pills. Not No Doz, but... “ Jim Belushi: “Amphetamines?”

“Being on set with him, he's an intense dude, man -- when you're in a scene with him and those Albanian dead eyes are just staring at you, it's intense.”

“My character is not formerly a stripper, but I’m sure her cousin is.”

Belushi: “Were in negotiations right now with the Blues Brothers." Jerry O'Connell: "Carrot Top won't stop calling us."

“I’m just talking. I forgot your question.”

"I love Jack Lord's McGarrett. I love Jack Lord's hair. I love Jack Lord's version -- I think he started Blue Steel, the look."

"When you're a fat guy in Hollywood you're the bad guy, the cop or the neighbor. "

“I can't be one of the daily co-hosts [of The Early Show] because that's too much even for the Chenbot –- I. Am. Not. Programmed. To. Do. That.”

“[My husband is a] really bad snorer. Just last night I was trying to put on one of those Breathe Right strips on his nose in his sleep. I ran out of his size and had to put on two of the kids size -- one on each nostril. It didn't work.”

“What’s annoying about your partner? Let’s start with Julie, maybe.”

"We're the new black -- we're everywhere. We're all really good-looking and talented, and I'm really happy we're taking over the world."

"This is usually the point when most of us in this room turn on a show..."

"It does take three people to take his pants off."

"Was that a lucky year or have you people finally figured out how to make an occasional hit?"

"You mean entertainment people." "No, I mean Great Minds."

"The malicious thing would be to change one word in the middle."

"Our fan base is distinctive -- they're the sweestest, least disturbing group of people."

"Regarding 'Feces My Dad Says'..."

“Dammit, he got out of press tour.”

“You can laugh at that, I've got a mirror. Lighten up.”

"TV would normally cast Chris O'Donnell and Courtney Cox as people who met at Overeaters Anonymous."

“We didn't ask the Big Bang guys about being nerds.” “You did three years ago.”

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