"(...) One evening I was sitting in the wings waiting to go on but
just before I went on Sir John Gielgud used to come down because he had an entrance
just a bit a before me and I was sitting rather gloomily in the wings and he said "What's
the matter with you, you're sitting there looking like Hamlet, in deep deep thought" and
I said "I'm getting so depressed, do you think I'm going to go on playing nothing but
children for the rest of my career?" And he laughed, and then came his cue and he went
on. I say this because I was by then I was 17 or 18 and still playing children. I was very
small, I looked very young and it really looked as if this was going to happen. Anyway
same scenario, he came down about a week later, waiting to go on and suddenly he
looked at me and said "I read a very nice play today, a very good play, by John Van
Druten and I said to Binkie 'You ought to cast Muriel as the girl'" And he looked at me
he said "It's alright, it's not a child, it's an ingenue role!"
(Muriel Pavlow, attrice; Lewisham, 27 giugno 1921 – Londra, 19 gennaio 2019)
Mario Bortolato, in arte Bort, disegnatore e fumettista (Salzano, 2 agosto 1926 – Alessandria, 19 gennaio 2019). Bort è ricordato per aver concepito e disegnato, per la rivista La Settimana Enigmistica, la rubrica "Le ultime parole famose". Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1963, diverrà una presenza costante all'interno delle pagine umoristiche finali del giornale, affermandosi come una tra le più famose del settimanale. Il disegnatore continuò a produrre vignette fino almeno al 2013, tuttavia - grazie alle tavole inedite realizzate nel passato e disponibili nel magazzino della rivista - la presenza delle opere di Bort poté continuare fino al 1º gennaio 2017, quando iniziò ad essere affidata da un altro autore. La frase che dà il titolo alla rubrica divenne col tempo un diffuso modo di dire.(da Wikipedia)
"Nessuno poteva riconoscermi sul treno. Proprietà demaniale. Sul treno ero semplicemente un cittadino, seduto o in piedi, che guardava il paesaggio, parlava, e godeva di un tocco di diritti fondamentali. Nessuno può essere rovinato sul treno. Questo è possibile solo nelle case, nei luoghi di lavoro, nelle scuole e nelle chiese” Da Il lato oscuro, 1975.
(Franz Innerhofer, scrittore; Krimml, 2 maggio 1944 – Graz, 19 gennaio 2002)
"I went to Hollywood in the mid-'50s, and I would say I went out there a little too early. It was an incredible amount of attention, and I wasn't quite mature enough psychologically and emotionally for [it]."
(Anthony Franciosa, pseudonimo di Anthony George Papaleo Jr., attore; New York, 25 ottobre 1928 – Los Angeles, 19 gennaio 2006)
"I began at twelve years old, but in fact I began really by chance. It was a friend of a friend of my mother's who was opening an agency, and she was looking for young kids. And so I entered the agency, but more by curiosity than real passion. And at first I had some small parts in TV movies - in fact my parents didn't want me to miss school, so I was working just once or twice a year. And I had a really regular progression - and this is really pleasant, I think - because I had small parts in TV movies, then bigger parts in TV movies, and then small parts in films. And I think this allows you to get...experience of the set and to get familiar with [the process]. And as I had a really slow progression, I think it really helped me to stay lucid and not get carried away."
(Gaspard Ulliel, attore e modello; Neuilly-sur-Seine, 25 novembre 1984 – La Tronche, 19 gennaio 2022)
