"I discovered that the character of 'Alice' represented 80% of the working women in this country, the blue collar and pink collar women. Hundreds of women have come up to me and said, 'It was because of watching "Alice" that I could get through another day with the baby in a high chair. I knew if SHE could do it, I could do it. I could go back to school, I could get off welfare, I could change my life.' "
(Linda Lavin, attrice; Portland, 15 ottobre 1937 – New York, 29 dicembre 2024)
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children." dal discorso in occasione della cerimonia di consegna del premio Nobel per la pace, 2002.
(James Earl Carter Jr., detto Jimmy, politico e filantropo, 39º Presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America; Plains, 1º ottobre 1924 – Plains, 29 dicembre 2024)
"The times when you have the most growth and make the most progress are when you’re challenged and have obstacles. That happened to me when I lost my husband and most all my finances. At nearly 40, I went back to zero with a teenage girl to support and an industry that didn’t want me."
(Dayle Haddon, ballerina, top model, attrice; Montréal, 26 maggio 1948 – Solebury, 27 dicembre 2024)
"When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.' "
(Olivia Hussey, nata Olivia Osuna Hussey, attrice; Buenos Aires, 17 aprile 1951 – Burbank, 27 dicembre 2024)
"disco music brought people together, which never goes out of style. We’re in a culture now that’s so divisive. People are tired of that separatism. We all realize that if that continues to happen there’s no hope for us as a country.
Disco was intergenerational and multicultural. It didn’t matter what your socioeconomic status or sexual orientation was. We were all laughing, having fun. As I’ve grown older, I really understand that being joyful extends your life. Disco was always a place where people could get away from society’s restrictions. The world puts you in a box, but when you’re on the floor dancing, and you grab somebody’s hand, it doesn’t matter whose hand it is. That’s what disco gave to the world.
I think that now, more than ever before, the resurgence of disco means that we really
want to be free of all the “isms”. People really do want to be
together, talk to each other, and share experiences with each other." da un'intervista di Christian John Wikane del 2018 per PopMatters
(Alfa Anderson, cantante della band anni '70 CHIC; Augusta, 7 settembre 1946 – 17 dicembre 2024)
"Sperimentavo l'utilizzo della luce e cercavo di imitare ciò che vedevo nel cinema noir. Poi, sono andato a Roma perché sognavo di fare cinema. Per guadagnarmi da vivere facevo le foto alle starlette di Cinecittà e la sera sviluppavo le pellicole nella pensione dove soggiornavo. Qualcuno, poi, vide i miei scatti; in particolare, Gustave Zumsteg, proprietario di Abraham Tessuti. Conosceva mio padre; mi chiese di fargli vedere le fotografie e, nonostante le considerassi totalmente amatoriali, gliele feci vedere. Mi disse: "Tu hai una sensibilità pazzesca e sei tagliato per fare la fotografia di moda". Rimasi sorpreso; non sapevo neanche cosa fosse la moda." da un'intervista di Teresa Lanna del 20 marzo 2023.
(Gian Paolo Barbieri, fotografo; Milano, 1935 – Milano, 17 dicembre 2024)
"A me hanno sempre dato personaggi speciali. Ho avuto la fortuna che, poiché non ho un aspetto spagnolo, non sono Concha Velasco o queste stupende, quando la televisione era colta e trasmetteva teatro, facevo tutti i drammi di Čechov, di Dostoevskij, di Ibsen. Ero l'anima russa. Ero il grande dramma. Avevo quella cosa profonda." da un'intervista per ICON.
(Marisa Paredes all'anagrafe María Luisa Paredes Bartolomé, attrice; Madrid, 3 aprile 1946 – Madrid, 17 dicembre 2024)
"I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials . . . I'd say things like, "Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?" and "Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach". Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress."
(Teri Garr, all'anagrafe Terry Ann Garr, attrice e ballerina; Lakewood, 11 dicembre 1944 – Los Angeles, 29 ottobre 2024)
"I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be in a boy band. We want to change that. We want to make the boy band cool. It's not just about dancing and dressing the same."
(Liam James Payne, cantante nella boy band One Direction; Wolverhampton, 29 agosto 1993 – Buenos Aires, 16 ottobre 2024)
"I could have written that book, the book about how horrifying she is or can be, but I didn't write that book. I was just looking for a little recognition for the work I've done for 20 years with her, that it wasn't one person."a proposito del libro scritto dopo aver rotto con la celebre sorella maggiore, Madonna.
(Christopher Ciccone, ballerino, coreografo, regista, pittore e interior designer; Bay City, 22 novembre 1960 – 4 ottobre 2024)
"Arrivò anche Fausto Gardini, il campione italiano. Si presentò e mi
disse “Non faresti una foto con me?”. “Certamente” risposi. Una foto
con Gardini? Io impazzivo. Mi mise in mano una bella confezione di
dentifricio Binaca. Quell’immagine uscì con la didascalia: Fausto
Gardini premia Lea Pericoli con i dentifrici Binaca. Su tutti i giornali
italiani venne lanciata una campagna. Per i dilettanti erano cose
vietate. Gardini fu squalificato e io venni chiamata da Enrico Piccardo,
il segretario della Federazione, un uomo piccolo di statura, tremendo.
Io ero tutta contenta di essere chiamata in Federazione. Lui mi disse:
‘Signorina Pericoli, lei è venuta in Italia ha giocato e vinto i
Campionati juniores da non qualificata, ha fatto la reclam della Binaca,
ha dato scandalo con le mutandine di pizzo a Wimbledon. O lei mi
promette che esce da quella porta e non gioca piú a tennis…. Altrimenti
la squalifico a vita’. Io spaventatissima promisi. Poi figurati…” (da www.supertennis.tv)
(Lea Pericoli, tenista, conduttrice televisiva, giornalista e telecronista sportiva; Milano, 22 marzo 1935 – Milano, 4 ottobre 2024)
"I am not a star. I am an actor. I have been fighting for years to make people forget that I am just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I will win it. I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'"
(Alain Delon, nome completo Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon, attore, regista e produttore; Sceaux, 8 novembre 1935 – Douchy, 18 agosto 2024)
"When I was very young, I was sick for several years, and I just read and read and read. I think one of the most wonderful things about acting is that you get to live so many lives, as in reading too. I'm sure that influenced me. I never wanted to be anything but an actress."
(Gena Rowlands, pseudonimo di Virginia Cathryn Rowlands, attrice; Madison, 19 giugno 1930 – Indian Wells, 14 agosto 2024)
"Let me start by saying it wasn't like I walked out one day and said, "I quit". It was a very long process of quitting the show. Aaron [producer Aaron Spelling] got as fed up with me as I was with the show, and I think it was because the notoriety was too much. People were hating the character and I couldn't take the abuse that came with that. People couldn't separate me from her and I got sick of people assuming that I was as naughty and bad as Brenda was. It was all very hurtful."
(Shannen Maria Doherty, attrice, regista e attivista per i diritti degli animali; Memphis, 12 aprile 1971 – 13 luglio 2024)
