James Dean a Times Square, 1955.

(Dennis Stock, fotogiornalista; New York, 24 luglio 1928 – Sarasota, 11 gennaio 2010)

 

"If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school."

(Captain Beefheart, pseudonimo di Don Van Vliet, musicista, cantautore e pittore; Glendale, 15 gennaio 1941 – Arcata, 17 dicembre 2010)

 

"Peter Sellers became a monster. He just got bored with the part [Inspector Clouseau] and became angry, sullen and unprofessional. He wouldn't show up for work and he began looking for anyone and everyone to blame, never for a moment stopping to see whether or not he should blame himself for his own madness, his own craziness."

(Blake Edwards, pseudonimo di William Blake Crump, regista, sceneggiatore e produttore cinematografico; Tulsa, 26 luglio 1922 – Santa Monica, 15 dicembre 2010)

 

"When people are laughing, they don't beat up on you. You're secure and safe. It's when they stop laughing that it's dangerous."

(Leslie William Nielsen, attore; Regina, 11 febbraio 1926 – Fort Lauderdale, 28 novembre 2010)

 

Baby Marie Osborne, nata Helen Alice Myres (Denver, 5 novembre 1911 – San Clemente, 11 novembre 2010), bambina attrice di grandissimo successo negli anni '10. Crescendo, ebbe ruoli sempre minori fino a diventare la controfigura di Ginger Rogers negli anni '30. Dagli anni '50 cominciò una carriera di successo come costumista.

 

"Topless is just topless. That's nothing. Why is it OK for men to go around topless when some of them have bigger boobs than many women?"

(Jill Clayburgh, attrice; New York, 30 aprile 1944 – Lakeville, 5 novembre 2010)

 

"For me, just being affiliated with Kelly--to be next to him--I mean, that's awesome. He's the ultimate surfer. He's the best surfer in the world. Ever. Best competitive, best free surfer, you name it, and to have my name put next to his everywhere really is flattering. He's the Michael Jordan of our sport. Kelly knows how I feel about him. Despite all the media hype that comes out of a rivalry there's a lot of respect given both ways. People don't realize there are times when we hang out. We'll go check the waves together. We talk about boards. He invited me personally to his contest on Tavarua. There's a ton of respect there." a proposito della famosa rivalità col collega Kelly Slater.

(Philip Andrew Irons, surfer professionista; Honolulu, 24 luglio 1978 – Grapevine, 2 novembre 2010)

 

"The 1980s were such a shock for me. I was really young, obviously, and The Slits were just mutilated. We were totally sabotaged to such a point that we were put out in exile. So that was the best way for me to spend the '80s: in the jungle, naked. Maybe there are more options now, and there's more girl groups. The only thing good that came out of the '80s was breakdancing."

(Ari Up, pseudonimo di Ariane Daniela Forster, cantante e leader della band femminile The Slits; Monaco di Baviera, 17 gennaio 1962 – Los Angeles, 20 ottobre 2010)

 

"Happy Days (1974) was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show."

(Tom Bosley,  nome completo Thomas Edward Bosley, attore; Chicago, 1º ottobre 1927 – Rancho Mirage, 19 ottobre 2010)

 

Angelo Infanti, attore noto per i numerosi film interpretati di genere spaghetti-western, poliziottesco, sexploitation e thriller. Il suo personaggio più famoso è però quello del truffatore Manuel Fantoni nella commedia Borotalco (1982), con cui vinse un David di Donatello come miglior attore non protagonista (Zagarolo, 16 febbraio 1939 – Tivoli, 12 ottobre 2010)

 

"I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her."

(Joan Sutherland, soprano; Sydney, 7 novembre 1926 – Les Avants, 10 ottobre 2010)

 

"There hasn't been much of a market for what I can do. I'm not into outer space epics or youth pictures."

(Arthur Hiller Penn, regista e produttore cinematografico; Filadelfia, 27 settembre 1922 – New York, 28 settembre 2010)

 

"I think it would have made all the difference. I might have gone on in films. I think of the ones that started out with me, the same place same station - Bette Davis, Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland. I would have liked to have won an Academy Award, to have acted in one or two of the things they've all done. So that part I regret. But I have to think of what went with it, for them, the many marriages, problems with children, career difficulties - I wouldn't trade any of their lives for mine. I'm very blessed, I think. I've had a happy, fulfilled life." a proposito della scelta di ritirarsi dal cinema per deidcarsi alla pittura.

(Gloria Stuart, all'anagrafe Gloria Frances Stewart, attrice e pittrice; Santa Monica, 4 luglio 1910 – Los Angeles, 26 settembre 2010)

 

"By the time I was thirty-three years old I'd been married to America's sweetheart and America's femme fatale and both marriages had ended in scandal; I'd been one of the most popular singers in America and had given up my career for love; I had fathered two children and adopted two children and rarely saw any of them; I was addicted to methamphetamines and I couldn't sleep at night without a huge dose of Librium. And from all this I had learned one very important lesson: There were no rules for me. I could get away with anything so long as that sound came out of my throat."

(Eddie Fisher, all'anagrafe Edwin Jack Fisher, cantante e attore; Filadelfia, 10 agosto 1928 – Berkeley, 22 settembre 2010)

 

"I fell in love with him and wrote his name on all my school books - Bill Boyd, Will, My Boy Billy and so on. How could I ever have dreamed that he would one day become my husband?" a proposito del marito, l'attore William Boyd.

(Grace Bradley, attrice, ballerina e cantante; New York City, 21 settembre 1913 – Dana Point, 21 settembre 2010)

 

Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man."   da Lesbian Nation, 1973.

(Jill Johnston, nota anche con lo pseudonimo di F. J. Crowe, attivista e giornalista; Londra, 17 maggio 1929 – Hartford, 18 settembre 2010)

 

"Nous vivons une époque où les pizzas arrivent plus vite que la police."

(Claude Chabrol, regista, sceneggiatore, attore e critico cinematografico; Parigi, 24 giugno 1930 – Parigi, 12 settembre 2010)

 

" Quel film per la fatica delle scene è stato come fare il militare per dav­vero." a proposito di La grande guerra (1959), di M. Monicelli.

(Tiberio Murgia, attore; Oristano, 5 febbraio 1929 – Tolfa, 20 agosto 2010)

 

"Un'efficace politica dell'ordine pubblico deve basarsi su un vasto consenso popolare, e il consenso si forma sulla paura, non verso le forze di polizia, ma verso i manifestanti [...] l'ideale sarebbe che di queste manifestazioni fosse vittima un passante, meglio un vecchio, una donna o un bambino, rimanendo ferito da qualche colpo di arma da fuoco sparato dai dimostranti: basterebbe una ferita lieve, ma meglio sarebbe se fosse grave, ma senza pericolo per la vita [...] io aspetterei ancora un po' e solo dopo che la situazione si aggravasse e colonne di studenti con militanti dei centri sociali, al canto di Bella ciao, devastassero strade, negozi, infrastrutture pubbliche e aggredissero forze di polizia in tenuta ordinaria e non antisommossa e ferissero qualcuno di loro, anche uccidendolo, farei intervenire massicciamente e pesantemente le forze dell'ordine contro i manifestanti." dalla lettera aperta alle forze dell'ordine dell'8 novembre 2008.

(Francesco Maurizio Cossiga, politico, giurista, ottavo Presidente della Repubblica Italiana; Sassari, 26 luglio 1928 – Roma, 17 agosto 2010)

 

"There's an extraordinary billboard up on Sunset Boulevard right now, with a humongous photograph of my face. I drive by it constantly back and forth, back and forth." parlando del suo film The Golden Spiders del 2000.

 (Maury Alan Chaykin, attore; New York, 27 luglio 1949 – Toronto, 27 luglio 2010)