"Whenever you see a Sherlock Holmes movie, say a prayer for Dr. Watson. Because if hadn't been for the kindness of Nigel Bruce and his wife, I just don't know what I'd have done in Hollywood. They kept me circulating socially when I was stagnating professionally. And the times they gave me dinner! But the very worst part was the men out there. I spent few minutes at a Barbara Hutton party talking with David O. Selznick. Later that same night he appeared at my door, and when I wouldn't let him in, he broke my window. Another time, on a warm day, I had my apartment door opened and in walked Harry Cohn - right into my house. I'd never met him. I didn't know who he was, even when he told me. When I told my agent that I nearly had him arrested, he told me that such a thing would have ruined me. Me! I had been assured that I was the prime contender for the lead in Sundown, the part that was to be the making of Gene Tierney, but after that horrible scene with Selznick, it was never again mentioned. You may wonder how a film to be made at one studio could be affected by another. By the simple fact that my agent was Myron Selznick, David's brother. It seems I had made a member of his family look foolish. Do you wonder why it's called a 'jungle'?" 

(June Duprez, nata June Ada Rose Duprez, attrice; Teddington, 14 maggio 1918 – Londra, 30 ottobre 1984)

 

“I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.”

(Joan Mitchell; Chicago, 12 febbraio 1925 – Parigi, 30 ottobre 1992) 

 

"I like to play the heavy because they pretty well leave you alone, unless you go overboard. I love the heavies, and I love the reaction I get from people. "Why are you so mean on screen? You're not a mean guy at all". Most of the people I know that played really nasty heavies, Bob Wilke [Robert J. Wilke], Mickey Simpson . . . they are the nicest guys in the world."

(Harry Lauter, nome completo Herman Arthur Lauter, attore caratterista; White Plains, 19 giugno 1914 – Ojai, 30 ottobre 1990)

 

"Contracts have never got me anywhere in pictures. The first one I had was with Universal, and all I got out of it was a few parts in two-reel Westerns that nobody ever saw. After I left there I got another contract with MGM, but they didn't give me a single thing to do, so I quit. De Mille's contract came next. They started me off as one half of a team with Frank Marion, but we never got a break with a really good story. It wasn't until my contract expired that they seemed to take enough interest to cast me in good stories."

(Virginia Bradford, nata Ada Virginia Estes, attrice attiva negli anni '20 e '30; Memphis, 7 novembre 1899 – 30 ottobre 1995)

 

"I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films."

(Samuel Fuller, regista, sceneggiatore e produttore cinematografico; Worcester, 12 agosto 1912 – Los Angeles, 30 ottobre 1997)

 

"La proibizione dell'incesto non è né di origine puramente culturale, né di origine puramente naturale; non è neppure una combinazione di elementi compositi, attinti in parte alla natura e in parte alla cultura. Essa costitutisce il passo fondamentale grazie al quale, per il quale, e soprattutto nel quale, si compie il passaggio dalla natura alla cultura. [...] la proibizione dell'incesto costituisce proprio il legame che unisce l'una sfera all'altra. [...] In realtà, più che di una unione, si tratta di una trasformazione o di un passaggio: prima che si verifichi, la cultura non è ancora data; con il suo verificarsi, la natura cessa di esistere nell'uomo come regno sovrano. La proibizione dell'incesto è il processo attraverso il quale la natura supera se stessa: accende la scintilla sotto la cui azione si forma una struttura di tipo nuovo, e più complesso, che si sovrappone, integrandole, alle strutture più semplici della vita psichica, così come queste ultime si sovrappongono, integrandole, alle strutture più semplici della vita animale. Essa opera, e di per se stessa costituisce, l'avvento di un nuovo ordine." da Le strutture elementari della parentela.

(Claude Lévi-Strauss, antropologo, etnologo e filosofo; Bruxelles, 28 novembre 1908 – Parigi, 30 ottobre 2009)

 

"I spent 20 years here before I got anything going, and from that I got lucky. It takes a lot of luck in show business, too. You've just got to be lucky and in the right place at the right time." a proposito della sua carriera a Hollywood.

(Albert Francis "Al" Molinaro, nato con il nome di Umberto Francesco Molinaro, attore, famoso per la serie tv Happy Days; Kenosha, 24 giugno 1919 – Glendale, 30 ottobre 2015)

 

"I certainly don't want to lie to my kids about what I do or what I have done in my past."

(Jenteal, nome d'arte di Reanna Lynn Rossi, star del cinema per soli adulti; Oklahoma, 26 giugno 1976 – Filippine, 30 ottobre 2020)

"I was always the hero - with no vices - reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie heroes are less handicapped than the old ones. They are more human. The leading men of silent films were Adonises and Apollos. Today, the hero can even take a poke at the leading lady. In my time, a hero who hit the girl just once would have been out."

(Ramón Novarro, talvolta accreditato anche come Ramón Navarro, nome d'arte di Juan Ramón Gil Samaniego, "latin lover" hollywoodiano; Victoria de Durango, 6 febbraio 1899 – Hollywood, 30 ottobre 1968)

"Non c'è rimasta nessuna vera star, così dobbiamo imitare quelle che lo sono state."

(Craig Russell, nome d'arte di Russell Craig Eadie, drag queen, cantante; Toronto, 10 gennaio 1948 – Toronto, 30 ottobre 1990)