"Acting never appealed to me, and I was dabbling in it solely as a means of making money. I rather felt that the greasepaint business was somewhat beneath a man who was once a reasonably useful boxer."

(Victor McLaglen, all'anagrafe Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen, vincitore del Premio Oscar come migliore attore protagonista nel 1936; Tunbridge Wells, 10 dicembre 1886 – Newport Beach, 7 novembre 1959)

 

Gli angeli, tomba Inga, cimitero di Staglieno, Genova.

(Luigi Venzano; Sestri Ponente, 2 giugno 1885 – Genova, 7 novembre 1962)

 

"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?"

(Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady americana e attivista per i diritti civili; New York, 11 ottobre 1884 – New York, 7 novembre 1962) 

 

Il tempio Zōjō-ji a Shiba, dalla serie 20 vedute di Tokyo, 1925, xilografia.

(Hasui Kawase;  18 maggio 1883 – Ōta, 7 novembre 1957)

 

"Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare."

(Gene Tunney, nome completo James Joseph Tunney, campione americano di pesi massimi e attore; New York City, 25 maggio 1897 – Greenwich, 7 novembre 1978)

 

"I almost never draw a completely naked man. He has to have at least a pair of boots or something on. To me, a fully dressed man is more erotic than a naked one. A naked man is, of course beautiful, but dress him in black leather or a uniform - ah, then he is more than beautiful, then he is sexy!"

(Touko Valio Laaksonen, conosciuto con il nome d'arte di Tom of Finland; Kaarina, 8 maggio 1920 – Helsinki, 7 novembre 1991)

 

"I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences. It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy."

(Dean Stockwell, attore; Los Angeles, 5 marzo 1936 – Ranchos de Taos, 7 novembre 2021)

Asfissia!, 1884, olio su tavola.

(Angelo Morbelli; Alessandria, 18 luglio 1854 – Milano, 7 novembre 1919)

"I have to be careful because I'm a limited actor. I mean, my range isn't very great. There's a whole lot of stuff I can't do, so I have to find characters and situations that feel right. Even then, when I've got something that fits, it's a hell of a lot of work. I'm not a serious actor. There's something about my shaggy-dog eyes that makes people think I'm good. I'm not all that good."

(Terence Steven "Steve" McQueen, star di Hollywood; Beech Grove, 24 marzo 1930 – Ciudad Juárez, 7 novembre 1980)

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

(Leonard Norman Cohen, cantautore; Montréal, 21 settembre 1934 – Los Angeles, 7 novembre 2016)

"Don't think of me as a porn star anymore, think of me as a recording star. I just want to record and perform"

(Andrea True, pseudonimo di Andrea Marie Truden, pornostar convertita alla disco music; Nashville, 26 luglio 1943 – New York, 7 novembre 2011)