“I think that thinking for yourself and having a strong opinion and going against the grain is shocking to most people, certainly in my business.”— Madonna, amazon.com
“I never tried to be profane and I never tried purposely to shock people—I never found nudity shocking and we always had fun with it.”— David LaChapelle, interviewmagazine.com
“If I told you half the things I’ve heard about this Jabba the Hutt, you’d probably short circuit.”— George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, C-3PO, Anthony Daniels, imdb.com
“Blossom: All right, Bubbles! What animal do you have hiding in there?! Bubbles: He's not an animal, [She opens the door and shows a blue whale in their bedroom] he's a mammal!”— Genndy Tartakovsky, Chris Savino, Cindy Morrow, Bubbles, Tara Strong, imdb.com
“We have a president who doesn’t care about the facts. That’s new and very dangerous. Shocking, I would say.”— Walter Mondale,
“I'm not sorry. I take the apology back 1,000 percent. The reason I made the apology is when the image went out, I thought people would just think, 'That's Kathy doing another shocking image.' I've done many throughout my entire career, and I've done many shocking things.”— Kathy Griffin, rollingstone.com