"I was taught never to compromise: to never sing a cheap song. I never look down at the audience and think that they are ignorant or think that I'm more intelligent than they are. To think otherwise is totally incorrect and runs contrary to everything I was raised to believe."
(Tony Bennett, pseudonimo di Anthony Dominick Benedetto, crooner; New York, 3 agosto 1926 – New York, 21 luglio 2023)
"No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act. Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes -- waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."
(Mako, pseudonimo di Makoto Iwamatsu, attore; Kōbe, 10 dicembre 1933 – Somis, 21 luglio 2006)
"LSD came in 1965. In retrospect, it seems now as though all of the elements that made it possible for acid to do what it did were assembled there in the Bay Area. Ken Kesey had recently brought his well-we-started-in-Oregon-sort-of band of hippies, beatniks, ne'er-do-wells, always-so-wells, insane people, sane people, a few freaks and some hangers-on to La Honda, just over a few miles from Palo Alto. Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions had started evolving into the Warlocks, who would soon become the Grateful Dead. There was an emerging political, intellectual, revolutionary, coffee-shop type of scene, primarily in Berkeley. So it was like, "Well, we got the wiring in and the lamps in, let's throw this switch and see if the thing lights up". It did. I had been smoking grass for two years, but acid was like that times ten, with a bunch of interesting weirdness thrown in. Acid was different, it was very special, and you probably didn't want to do it every day."
(John Collins Dawson IV, detto Marmaduke, musicista e cantautore, cofondatore delle band Greatful Dead e New Riders Of The Purple Sage; Detroit, 16 giugno 1945 – San Miguel de Allende, 21 luglio 2009)
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"Es gehört zum Beruf. Ich habe mir unzählige Grenzen gesetzt und erwische mich dabei, dass ich sie alle überspringe. Ich wollte zum Beispiel nie nackt auftreten oder tauchen lernen." a proposito delle sfide affrontate sul lavoro.
(Susanne Lothar, attrice; Amburgo, 15 novembre 1960 – Berlino, 21 luglio 2012)
"Television is fast and loose. You have two or three takes to get your part right, and if you have a problem, well by the time you figure it out, everyone's moved on to the next scene. It's good training, keeps you on your toes."
(John Heard, nome completo John Matthew Heard Jr., attore; Washington, 7 marzo 1946 – Palo Alto, 21 luglio 2017)
