One afternoon, at rush hour, George Shearing who is blind, was waiting at a busy intersection for someone to take him across the street when another blind man tapped him on the shoulder and asked if Shearing would mind helping him to get across.

"What could I do?" said Shearing afterward. "I took him across and it was the biggest thrill of my life."

Camille

"Somewhere in the world," Clara Morris once remarked, "there is an actor - and a good one - who never eats celery without thinking of me. It was years ago, when I was playing Camille. In the first scene, you will remember, the unfortunate Armand takes a rose from Camille as a token of love. We had almost reached that point, when, as I glanced down, I saw that the flower was missing from its accustomed place on my breast.
"What could I do? On the flower hung the strength of the scene. However, I continued my lines in an abstracted fashion, and began a still hunt for that rose or a substitute. My gaze wandered around the stage. On the dinner table was some celery. Moving slowly toward it, I grasped the celery and twisted the tops into a rose form. Then I began the fateful lines:

"'Take this flower. The life of a camellia is short. If held and caressed it will fade in a morning or an evening.

"Hardly able to control his laughter, Armand spoke his lines which ran: 'It is a cold, scentless flower. It is a strange flower.' I agreed with him."

Alec Baldwin: Gillette Defense

One day in 1995, Alec Baldwin caught a celebrity photographer named Alan Zanger videotaping him - and proceeded to break his nose. Five years later, in June, 2000, the California Supreme Court ruled that - notwithstanding his protestations of innocence - Baldwin would have to pay $4,500 in damages.
Baldwin's defense? That his actions had been motivated by self-defense. The 'actions' in question? He had punched Zanger, broken his glasses... and then covered his truck with shaving cream.

After the Mexican War, William Tecumseh Sherman was sent by President Zachary Taylor to survey the newly acquired lands of New Mexico, Arizona, and California. On his return, Taylor asked Sherman: "Well, Captain, will our new possessions pay for the blood and treasure spent in the war?" Recalling the arid lands he had just explored, Sherman replied, "Between you and me, General, I feel that we'll have to go to war again." Taylor was aghast. "What for?" "What for?" he asked. "To make 'em take the darn country back!" said Sherman.

Meredith Vieira: Backstage Pass

While filming an episode of "The View" one day, Meredith Vieira went backstage to get her hair and makeup touched up. After encountering a musical guest and her band at the entrance to the green room, Meredith passed someone in the hall and bumped into him. "I went to grab his hand, to say I'm sorry," she recalled. He might have been surprised by her apology. Explained Meredith: "I grabbed his penis by mistake!"