"Serials were the "street urchins" of the business. Agents always warned you to never admit that you had appeared in one because it would be held against you be the major studios, although many actors went on the become super stars after getting their start in these films. Some of the top producers, today, got their early training with these serials. My own regret, now, is that I didn't make more of them. I, too, was reaching for the top rung of the ladder and not wanting to be "type-cast",I turned down three times more serials than I made."

 (Carol Forman, nome d'arte di Maude Carolyn Sawls, attrice; Epes, 19 giugno 1919 – Burbank, 9 luglio 1997)

Aldo Salvatore Stellita, bassista, cantante e paroliere dei Matia Bazar (Campobello di Mazara, 2 agosto 1947 – Udine, 9 luglio 1998)

 

"If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?"

 (Henry Ross Perot, imprenditore e politico che si candidò come indipendente alle elezioni del 1992 e 1996 per la carica di Presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America; Texarkana, 27 giugno 1930 – Dallas, 9 luglio 2019)

 

"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man."

 (Rip Torn, all'anagrafe Elmore Rual Torn Jr., attore e regista; Temple, 6 febbraio 1931 – Lakeville, 9 luglio 2019)

 

"Different parts call for different heavies. I have a certain presence. I play against that presence a lot of times. One school of heavy that kind of came in vogue, I use it, Warren Oates used it for a while, Jack Elam did with his own twist, and that's of a heavy that is not crazy or deranged--although we play those, of course--but rather someone who is a heavy because he enjoys being a heavy. I've done 25, 30, 50 different types of heavies, a shade here, a shade there . . . it's really hard to say what they're looking for when they pick me. A lot of times your heavy is not that well presented in the script. Most times he's too one-sided. So we look for things to bring to being a heavy: a certain softness; a vulnerability that makes him human; a quiet moment when he's a screamer most of the time; a look; the way he dresses; the way he walks into a room. There are many things that contribute to why a casting director will choose me over someone else . . . or someone else over me."

 (L. Q. Jones, nato Justus Ellis McQueen, Jr., attore, regista e produttore cinematografico; Beaumont, 19 agosto 1927 – Los Angeles, 9 luglio 2022)

"I politici di oggi offrono le mani vuote ... Dobbiamo, abbiamo bisogno ... Cosa offrono? Io non lo so. Vedo solo che vogliono portarci... Dove? Quindi noi dobbiamo restare

qui. Io voglio restare qui, non voglio andare da qualche parte lì. Voglio comunicare, raggiungere alcuni standard, non voglio andare via! Voglio stare in questo paese, essere una particella nella sua formazione. Lo voglio e lo faccio come attore, quindi cerco di presentarlo attraverso questo ruolo del presidente." Dall'intervista sullo spettacolo teatrale Il cavallo per spritz (Konja za gemišt), dove ha avuto un triplice ruolo: scrittore, regista e attore.

(Božidar Orešković, attore; Zagabria, 21 agosto 1942 - Kozjača, 9 luglio 2010) 

Adorazione dei Magi, 1525-30, olio su tavola, 92x105,4 cm., Walters Art Gallery, Baltimora.

(Girolamo da Santacroce, o Gerolamo Galizzi; Santa Croce, 1490 circa – Venezia, 9 luglio 1556)

"You get the Oscar and you get better scripts, better actors and better directors to work for and of course your salary goes up until you make your first mistake and then you have to start from the beginning again."

(Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger, attore; Westhampton, 14 aprile 1925 – Los Angeles, 9 luglio 2002)

"I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s."

(Isabel Sanford, all'anagrafe Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford, prima afro-americana a vincere un Emmy  come migliore attrice in una serie comica; New York, 29 agosto 1917 – Los Angeles, 9 luglio 2004)

"Most models are emotionally abandoned. They need me. I'm their mother."

(Eileen Ford, all'anagrafe Eileen Cecile Ottensoser, ex-indossatrice e co-fondatrice dell'agenzia Ford Models; New York, 25 marzo 1922 – Morristown, 9 luglio 2014)