"Nobody thought of me as an actress. They just remembered that publicity story about my munching flower petals for breakfast. I even thought of giving up the name 'Piper Laurie' because I felt there was a stigma attached to it. I never could figure out just how many parts I lost and how many parts I won because of this name. I know some producers and directors said, 'Well, maybe she can act even if her name is Piper Laurie!'"

(Piper Laurie, pseudonimo di Rosetta Jacobs, attrice andidata a tre premi Oscar e vincitrice di un Golden Globe e un Premio Emmy; Detroit, 22 gennaio 1932 – Los Angeles, 14 ottobre 2023)

 

"Sì , proprio vero, li mando tutti a buggerare con la più grande voluttà! [….] Mi auguro di non aver mai più bisogno di tornare a respirare in quella cloaca massima che si chiama palcoscenico. Me ne vado nascosta, indignata, stupefatta, avvelenata da tante oscene e turpi cose vedute e volute; sì, me ne vado e me ne vado immacolata e povera!” da una lettera scritta nel 1920 quando provò a lasciare le scene.

(Irma Gramatica, all'anagrafe Maria Francesca Gramatica, attrice; Fiume, 25 novembre 1867 – Tavarnuzze, 14 ottobre 1962)

"There are too many actors today. They don't speak clearly and they won't take advice. I can't stand old bores who go around talking abut 'when I was young' but I do know there's no discipline today. Kids are snapped up for television and films as soon as they learn to stand up straight. They have no training and many of them go to psychiatrists! I've never heard of anything more ridiculous. No actor of my acquaintance goes to one, and I certainly never would... There are a frightful lot of chi-chi classes teaching 'Method acting,' but it's such bunk... The rhetoric no longer seems to come from the heart as it used to. But I don't want to talk about the past. I live for now. I'm much better now than ever before and my best days are still to come."

(Edith Mary Evans, attrice di teatro che solo in tarda età fece film, ricevendo pure due candidature al Premio Oscar come miglior attrice non protagonista; Londra, 8 febbraio 1888 – Cranbrook, 14 ottobre 1976)

 

"I'm glad I was a star back then and not now. I never had to take my clothes off to appear sexy. It was a certain look. My only regret is I didn't get to make a truly great movie like Casablanca (1942) to be identified with. Fans come up and they keep mentioning stuff like Yankee Pasha (1954) or Those Redheads from Seattle (1953). Now come on!"

(Rhonda Fleming, pseudonimo di Marilyn Cheverton Louis, attrice e cantante; (Los Angeles, 10 agosto 1923 – Santa Monica, 14 ottobre 2020)

 

"See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work."

(Robbie Coltrane, pseudonimo di Anthony Robert McMillan, attore e comico; Rutherglen, 30 marzo 1950 – Larbert, 14 ottobre 2022)

"Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."

(Leonard Bernstein, nato con il nome di Louis, compositore, pianista, direttore d'orchestra; Lawrence, 25 agosto 1918 – New York, 14 ottobre 1990)

"I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest."

(Errol Leslie Flynn, star di Hollywood; Hobart, 20 giugno 1909 – Vancouver, 14 ottobre 1959)

Eugen Sandow, nato Friederich Wilhelm Mueller, padre del culturismo moderno (Königsberg, 2 aprile 1867 – Londra, 14 ottobre 1925)

Conversione di S. Paolo, 1590-'95, olio su tela, 207x337 cm., Museo del Prado, Madrid.

(Giacomo Negretti detto Palma il Giovane per distinguerlo dal prozio Jacopo Palma il Vecchio; Venezia, 1548/1550 – 14 ottobre 1628)