"I never think of the people that I play as being bad, because I don't think most people, even if they are terrible, think of themselves as being bad. I think that may be part of the trick of it."

(Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith, attore; Rugby, 13 maggio 1946 – Northampton, 7 aprile 2017) 

 

"Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films. It's collective thought. These things you get from Hollywood are no more than computer games, where you might as well have a little wired handset that you could blow up this truck if you want instead of that one, that would at least allow audience participation. With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters."

(Seymour Joseph Cassel, attore; Detroit, 22 gennaio 1935 – Los Angeles, 7 aprile 2019)  

 

"I hate ridiculous names, my weird name has haunted me all my life. I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary. I also hate being famous because people claim to know me because of my surname."

 (Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof, modella, giornalista e conduttrice televisiva; Londra, 13 marzo 1989 – Wrotham, 7 aprile 2014)

 

“When you fall, fall on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up”

 (Carl Williams, peso massimo soprannominato "The Truth"; Belle Glade, 11 novembre 1959 – 7 aprile 2013)

 

" I was scared to death. I didn't enjoy it at all. I - I thought what if I've gotten myself into. And I also thought, and my parents had told me that I closed a lot of doors, you know, and that I was not going exactly run back out and get into a soap. But remember one hadn't been offered to me either. I always make the joke about that I was not offered the Brady Bunch and so I ended up doing this. But it is true that I wasn't going to wait around for somebody to make me a personality, I wanted it then. And at that time the x-rated film industry was coming into its own. That was new too. I seemed to have carved a lot of new industries." alla domanda se si fosse divertito a iniziare una carriera nel cinema per soli adulti.

 (Jack Wrangler, pseudonimo di John Robert Stillman, attore; Beverly Hills, 11 luglio 1946 – New York, 7 aprile 2009)

 

"I work with the director and the other actors, but I figure that is about two inches of something that is a yard long. The other 34 inches is what I have to do myself. So far I have not conflicted with a director or writer or anybody else. But I know basically what I want to do as far as acting goes."

 (Geoffrey Lewis, attore; San Diego, 31 luglio 1935 – Los Angeles, 7 aprile 2015)

David Graf, attore caratterista famoso per "Scuola di polizia" (Zanesville, 16 aprile 1950 – Phoenix, 7 aprile 2001)

"L'arte più nobile è quella di rendere gli altri felici."

(Phineas Taylor Barnum, imprenditore e circense, famoso per le studiate campagne pubblicitarie e per le attrazioni incredibili che presentava come lo scheletro di Cristoforo Colombo, il Gigante di Cardiff e la sirena delle isole Figi; Bethel, 5 luglio 1810 – Bridgeport, 7 aprile 1891)

L'altra stanza, 1937-39, olio su tela.

(Vanessa Bell nata Vanessa Stephen; Londra, 28 maggio 1879 – Charleston Farmhouse, 7 aprile 1961)

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

(Henry Ford, imprenditore; Dearborn, 30 luglio 1863 – Detroit, 7 aprile 1947)

Foto: Henry Ford nel 1921 davanti al suo famoso "Modello T".

Visione di S. Giovanni, 1608-14, olio su tela, 225x193 cm., Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.

(El Greco, oppure il Greco, nome d'arte di Domínikos Theotokópoulos; Candia, 1541 – Toledo, 7 aprile 1614)

"To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad, I'll always be remembered."

(Theda Bara, nome d'arte di Theodosia Burr Goodman, prima vamp del cinema; Cincinnati, 29 luglio 1885 – Los Angeles, 7 aprile 1955)