ARTS / Overheard

I don't think patience is a male item - Thelma Schoonmaker, film editor, on being asked why so many editors are women, Guardian

Mr Hussey's job is to ascertain what the public interest is. The man has failed in this matter and he will fail in other matters. We want him to go - Nick Mackinnon, leader of the campaign to keep Radio 4 on long wave, on the chairman of the BBC

I think most of them could pick it up on FM if they tried - Radio 4 spokeswoman

You've got to be quicker] You're on television] - Chris Evans, presenter of The Big Breakfast (C4), to phone-in caller

The cosmetic world is a proper grown-up industry. You don't have that preoccupation with who goes to bed with whom - all the trivia that Hollywood and Washington thrive on - Elizabeth Taylor, US Premiere

We are talking about one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Shame on you - Alan Bleasdale, playwright, to diners at the Writers' Guild Awards who heckled an incoherent John Osborne

C'est un monstre. Mad. He really is a force of nature. If I were a woman, I would have made love with him - Gerard Depardieu on Ridley Scott, his director on 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Time Out