"I wanted to act, but I'd always been convinced that actors had to be handsome. That came from the days when Errol Flynn was my idol. I'd come out of a theater and be startled when I looked in a mirror because I didn't look like Flynn. I felt like him."

(Eugene Allen Hackman, detto Gene, attore e scrittore; San Bernardino, 30 gennaio 1930 – Santa Fe, 26 febbraio 2025)