"As an actress, I have always believed that the truer challenge, the deeper obligation, begins after the the camera stops. My role as a woman in my community and in my home has always overshadowed the excitement of any part I have ever played on stage or screen."

(Ann Blyth, attrice e cantante, ricordata per la nomination agli Oscar per il ruolo dell'ingrata Veda ne Il romanzo di Mildred del 1945; Mount Kisco, 16 agosto 1928 – 24 giugno 2026)  

 

"L'attore Tomas Milian, con il suo “Monnezza” è finito sulla Treccani. Io al massimo i tre cani “me li posso portà ai giardinetti”." da un'intervista di Gianfranco Gramola del febbraio 2018.

(Alvaro Vitali, attore e comico; Roma, 3 febbraio 1950 – Roma, 24 giugno 2025) 

 

"Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at."

 (Jackie Gleason, all'anagrafe John Herbert Gleason, attore, compositore e conduttore televisivo; New York, 26 febbraio 1916 – Fort Lauderdale, 24 giugno 1987)

 

"A car is a car, it won't make you handsome or prettier or younger. And if it improves your standing with the neighbors, then you live among snobs."

 (Brian Keith, nome d'arte di Robert Keith Richey Jr., attore; Bayonne, 14 novembre 1921 – Malibù, 24 giugno 1997)

 

"I am the greatest technical wrestler in the history of the WWF!"

 (Christopher Michael "Chris" Benoit, wrestler; Montréal, 21 maggio 1967 – Fayetteville, 24 giugno 2007)

 

"Everything you've heard about Harry Cohn is the truth, take my word for it! He was a horrible man and so crude. He had no manners, no education, no anything. He was a terrible womanizer. That old buzzard tried me, and when he was rebuffed, he put me in westerns! He thought it was punishment, but I loved it! I loved making westerns. They were so much fun. The outdoors, everything about them."

 (Barbara Weeks, pseudonimo di Sue Kingsley, attrice, ballerina e modella; Somerville, 4 luglio 1913 – Las Vegas, 24 giugno 2003)

"Television and its use of computers can make everything talk, so there's no need for the art of ventriloquism anymore. I don't think young kids today would even understand it."

 (Paul Winchell, nome d'arte di Paul Wilchinsky, attore, doppiatore e inventore; New York, 21 dicembre 1922 – Los Angeles, 24 giugno 2005)

 

"I enjoy villains. I've figured out how to get paid for doing what they tried to throw me in jail for when I was a kid. Besides, I'm never going to be the boy next door. That's not who I want to be. So I try to put a little of the dark side into my good guys and a bit of gentleness into my heavies."

 (Billy Drago, pseudonimo di William Eugene Burrows, attore e conduttore radiofonico; Hugoton, 18 settembre 1946 – Los Angeles, 24 giugno 2019)

"Not a single manager in New York had faith in me. They all said: 'Oh, why not go on being yourself? It is foolish to try to play other sorts of roles,' not realizing that I wasn't being myself at all. That person they saw on the stage was not I. It was something which I had created, and one day I found myself almost in the position of Frankenstein. It wasn't I, but it was a strong as I, and in another season I felt that that person which managers and public thought I was would have dominated me completely. There would have been no I - only It."

(Lucile Watson, attrice; Québec, 27 maggio 1879 – New York, 24 giugno 1962)

I viaggiatori, 1890 ca., olio su cartone, 32,7x55 cm., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney.

(Girolamo Pieri Pecci Ballati Nerli; Siena, 12 febbraio 1860 – Nervi, 24 giugno 1926)

Lo specchio della morte, 1929 ca., olio su tela, 83x66 cm., Collezione Santander.

(José Luis Gutiérrez Solana; Madrid, 1885 – Madrid, 24 giugno 1945)

"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."

(Eli Herschel Wallach, attore; New York, 7 dicembre 1915 – New York, 24 giugno 2014)

"The moment you make yourself public through a film or whatever, it's communicative. Then with that come the demands from other people to discuss it and explain it and grapple with it. I've learned so much from it." A proposito del suo primo film, Ai cessi in tassì, 1980.

(Frank Ripploh, noto anche come Peggy von Schnottgenberg, regista, attore e scneggiatore; Rheine, 2 settembre 1949 – Rheine, 24 giugno 2002)