TGIF quotables: Kathy Griffin on mom; Sanjaya on his sexuality; Bruce Steele on Faye Dunaway

“I have beaten her down like a pound dog and convinced her that every time I make fun of her or make a joke at her expense, it helps me pay for my house, where she lives half the time. I try to make a direct link between her own survival and my jokes about her. I occasionally suggest if I’m not able to make jokes about her, she will be living in a state-run home within two weeks.”

— Kathy Griffin on her 89=year-old mother to The Boston Phoenix

“Like, yeah

, a lot of people want me to be their gay best friend, and I make a really good gay best friend. But I don’t like guys, so it confuses people…I do hair, and I’ll sit in the corner and knit. So it confuses people. A lot of my friends refer to me as their ‘straight gay best friend’ because we’ll go do things that stereotypically you would do with a gay guy…I’m not, like, that classic, stereotypical macho guy that’s just, like, ‘Oh yeah! Oh, she’s hot. I wanna get in her pants!”

— Sanjaya Malakar on NBC’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here

Bruce Steele is watching Three Days of the Condor and marking all the cultural icons it contains that no longer exist: the World Trade Center, teletype, telephone booths, John Houseman, Faye Dunaway’s sanity…