"I dreamed all my life of being a movie star. Movies were my life. You had to have an escape when you were raised in a basement. I saw all the James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield pictures. Odds against the world ... that was my meat."

(Nick Adams, nome d'arte di Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock, attore; Nanticoke, 10 luglio 1931 – Beverly Hills, 6 febbraio 1968)