"So my tattoo means 'Live without regrets.' It's not that you don't regret things in life, but you at least try to learn from them. It's misspelled too [accidentally, as rimipianti], so I literally have to live by that advice!"
(Hayden Lesley Panettiere, attrice e cantante; Palisades, 21 agosto 1989 – 16 agosto 2026)
"Il nuovo è una fissazione, non esiste qualcosa di nuovo. A volte quando fai il vecchio non lo fai come lo facevi una volta ma lo fai con un ritmo, una cadenza e un linguaggio che sono moderni. Ieri e oggi non esistono come categorie artistiche, esiste la cosa bella o brutta." da un articolo de Il fatto quotidiano del gennaio 2024.
(Giuseppe Raimondo Vittorio Baudo, detto Pippo, autore e conduttore televisivo e rdiofonico; Militello in Val di Catania, 7 giugno 1936 – Roma, 16 agosto 2025)
"I didn't know any opera. I sang the songs I heard on the radio. But in those days, they played popular songs sung by the best opera voices, like Beniamino Gigli singing Mamma and Tito Schipa singing Vivere. I didn't know it then, but they were my first voice teachers!"
(Renata Scotto, soprano e regista teatrale; Savona, 24 febbraio 1934 – New York, 16 agosto 2023)
"I'm a good person, fortunately. That's why I'm a pretty happy person
now. I've been married for 51 years, have six grandchildren. I'm very
proud that I behaved well and didn't make a begging, obsequious fool of
myself. The blacklist hurt my career. I probably get considerably less
in pensions now as a writer and director than I would have, but I'm not
bitching about it. I think of my kids. They know that I was tested and
behaved well, which makes me feel awfully good. I couldn't have lived
if I had just gone against all of my inclinations, everything I ever
believed in. I just couldn't be an informer. I know I've got guts and I
know I care so much for my country. I demonstrated it." a proposito dei molti anni in cui non potè lavorare nel cinema o in tv per via del maccartismo.
(Jeff Corey, pseudonimo di Arthur Zwerling, attore e insegnante di recitazione; Brooklyn, 10 agosto 1914 – Santa Monica, 16 agosto 2002)
"I maintain that 90% of what you do in this world, whether it's bagels you eat, clothes you wear, adults you meet when you're little, plays you go to or are in, 90% is horsecrap. Five percent is just godawful and you wish you could forget it, 5% is memorable, so you better enjoy the horsecrap because nine out of ten hours in your life are gonna be spent in horsecrap. So fine, but don't go around giving it first prizes! The first prizes are too valuable--they're really for only for that 5%--of people, food, clothing, time, weather, age, whatever you want to name in your life."
(William Windom, attore; New York, 28 settembre 1923 – Woodacre, 16 agosto 2012)
