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MARK RUFFALO Nothing existed named; but it's after it existed that it is named.
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VAL KILMER![]()
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
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IGGY AZALEA I'm curious to know how many newborn babies will be named Jeremih after my second album.
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I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.
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REGGIE LEE I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a v...
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M.I.A. I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
BERT WILLIAMS I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested ...
BROOKLYN DECKER
The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it ... JOSH TURNER I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and ...
AUBREY PLAZA
It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who care... PENN JILLETTE
I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a t... CARRIE ANN INABA
There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by ... DAX SHEPARD I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that i...
MELISSA ROSENBERG One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', is also the name of my company, and th...
DAVE MORRIS
I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things. STANA KATIC There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself a...
BRIAN POSEHN After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I n...
JAY LONDON I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much t...
HOAGY CARMICHAEL My nickname is 100 percent fan-based. It's not like one day I said, 'Hey, I want to be named...
BILLY BUTLER My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from...
KADEE STRICKLAND
I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only p... HILARIE BURTON I have a lot of mice, I have a kitten named 'Girr,' I have an iguana named 'Invader Zim,...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my...
DEBORAH EISENBERG My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanni...
DAKOTA FANNING When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, an...
FRED ARMISEN And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy L...
MEL TILLIS I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Ma...
DANIEL ALARCON I have a rescue dog named Fideo, which means 'noodle' in Spanish, and a cat named Hutch.
ANA ORTIZ
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria... VINCE VAUGHN
This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I ... JASON KIDD
I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see th... MARK RUFFALO Nothing existed named; but it's after it existed that it is named.
EPHDAN It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.
ERIQ LA SALLE To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
My godfather was a man named Justin Dart. Some of you may remember Justin Dart. My younger son's... ARTHUR LAFFER I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named...
MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and ...
ED HARRIS We named the company FunQuilts because its fun for usnot necessarily because the quilts are fun,
BILL KERR I'd like an omelet named after me.
RUFUS SEWELL It just melts my heart to have that, especially since our stadium is named after him. I have people ...
BUD SUEPPEL Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, a...
MING-NA WEN They named it Madden Post Office because W.A. Madden, who lived across the road, gave them the bond ...
TOM YATES
It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone. BRIDGET HALL
Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is,... KELLY SUE DECONNICK
My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbol... BILLY CORGAN I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hol...
DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT
We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubma... CARRIE NUGENT Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of our...
BURNIE BURNS
I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it. ANDY WILLIAMS You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, wh...
M.I.A. It's interesting how Rod Stewart can father a child at 65, and a straight, single footballer nam...
DAVID FURNISH
It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kin... BILLIE LOURD
When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me t... TIM BURTON The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun...
SAM SIMON
'Kiss Land' is the story after 'Trilogy'; it's pretty much the second chapter of... THE WEEKND It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on ou...
MONTE IRVIN
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My ...
AARON DOUGLAS 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It de...
BEN FOSTER
I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange na... VAL KILMER
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me. DARYNDA JONES I always have at least four different lip products in my purse - I'm obsessed! I'm into L...
EDY GANEM Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I hav...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
Two people who I think have the world's most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. ... SOPHIA BUSH
It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at... HEIDI KLUM
She should have a ride named after her at Epcot, man. DENNIS LEHANE
He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. ERIN HUNTER I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the...
RICHARD CORLISS
Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't w... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my li...
TY DOLLA SIGN
'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I... IGGY AZALEA I'm curious to know how many newborn babies will be named Jeremih after my second album.
JEREMIH I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY
My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f... NATASHA TRETHEWEY
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER
I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is... LADY GAGA In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christia...
JOEL COURTNEY For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald...
WARREN G I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.
JULIE ORRINGER
Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a w... RAF SIMONS After my wife and I were married, we obtained a rescue dog from a family that didn't want her an...
BOB PETERSON I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
BERT WILLIAMS It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times...
EMMA ROBERTS Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of m...
DIDIER DROGBA Watching a company develop is like watching a puppy grow. When you can watch something grow that you...
BRODY JENNER
I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth. JULIE ANDREWS The other day, a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Originals tweeted me telling me that the...
REGGIE LEE I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a v...
VICKY MCCLURE
We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed ... PETER HIGGS
My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' an... BRENDON URIE
To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!' CHERYL HAYASHI
Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one o... RAYMOND BONNER
I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wif... THIERRY HENRY
I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, ... CONOR MCGREGOR
I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two ... RAFAEL NADAL I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think,...
SARAH SILVERMAN I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ...
DOUG DAVIDSON
I'm involved in everything from a nutraceutical company to a pharmaceutical company to a medical... MONTEL WILLIAMS
It's not fair that people who work, save, and pay for their cell phones are forced to fund the L... TIM GRIFFIN
Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue sy... SIMON HOGGART
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