Ettore Bastianini, baritono (Siena, 24 settembre 1922 – Sirmione, 25 gennaio 1967)
"If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it."
(Otis Redding, nome completo Otis Ray Redding Jr., cantante; Dawson, 9 settembre 1941 – Madison, 10 dicembre 1967)
"I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think "star" is what you call actors who can't act."
(Paul Muni, pseudonimo di Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund, attore con cinque candidature al Premio Oscar e una vittoria; Leopoli, 22 settembre 1895 – Montecito, 25 agosto 1967)
"The kids keep telling me I should try this new "Method Acting" but I'm too old, I'm too tired and I'm too talented to care."
(Spencer Tracy, attore; Milwaukee, 5 aprile 1900 – Beverly Hills, 10 giugno 1967)
"Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live."
(Dorothy Parker, nata Dorothy Rothschild, scrittrice, poetessa e giornalista; Long Branch, 22 agosto 1893 – New York, 7 giugno 1967)
"They nicknamed me "The Oomph Girl", and I loathe that nickname! Just being known by a nickname indicates that you're not thought of as a true actress . . . It's just crap! If you call an actress by her looks or a reaction, then that's all she will ever be thought of as."
(Ann Sheridan, pseudonimo di Clara Lou Sheridan, attrice; Denton, 21 febbraio 1915 – Los Angeles, 21 gennaio 1967)