"Blue movies are great, educational and great tension-relievers. We all need horny thrills, right?"

(Mary Millington, pseudonimo di Mary Ruth Maxted e nata Quilter, modella, attrice di film per soli adulti, attivista e proprietaria di un sex shop; Kenton, 30 novembre 1945 – Walton-on-the-Hill, 19 agosto 1979)

"Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with it. Go figure..."

 (Phyllis Hyman, cantautrice; Filadelfia, 6 luglio 1949 – New York, 30 giugno 1995)

 

"Ed ecco, mentre chiamavo la kellerina per pagare la mia consumazione, capii a chi somigliava quell'uomo [Hitler]. A Haarmann somigliava, allo stupratore di fanciulli di Hannover, il cui processo da non molto tempo aveva tanto fatto parlar di sé. Questo barbablù omosessuale era riuscito ad attirare in casa sua dai trenta ai quaranta ragazzetti, ai quali, nell'atto dell'amore, mordeva la gola, e dei poveri corpi straziati faceva salsicce. La somiglianza tra quei due uomini mi colpì. I baffetti, il riccio in fronte, lo sguardo sornione, la bocca piagnucolosa ad un tempo e rozza, la fronte cocciuta e persino quel naso repugnante. Tal quale!
Possibile che un paese, che era stato tanto orgoglioso dei suoi poeti e dei suoi pensatori, accettasse una tale cimice per «l'uomo del destino»?" da La scritta sul muro (1930-1932)

(Klaus Mann, scrittore; Monaco di Baviera, 18 novembre 1906 – Cannes, 21 maggio 1949)

 

"What happened to me--the biggest nervous breakdown in history, bar possibly Vivien Leigh's--is not so uncommon. I've had thousands of supportive letters from all over the world. It's just that mine was public. If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom."

 (Margot Kidder, all'anagrafe Margaret Ruth Kidder, attrice; Yellowknife, 17 ottobre 1948 – Livingston, 13 maggio 2018)

 

"Daddy was the Black Dahlia killer" 

(Janice Gail Knowlton, cantante, ballerina e scrittrice; Beverly, 8 gennaio 1937 – Anaheim, 5 marzo 2004)

 

Mark Rothko, No. 3/No. 13, 1949. MoMA, New York, NY.

"The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point."

 (Mark Rothko, pseudonimo di Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz; Daugavpils, 25 settembre 1903 – New York, 25 febbraio 1970)

 

"In effect there are two Joyce Jamesons - the real one and the character whom my agent and I call The Dummy."

 (Joyce Jameson, attrice specializzata in ruoli di bionda sexy e sciocca; Chicago, 26 settembre 1932 – Burbank, 16 gennaio 1987)

 "Right now, we are putting a band-aid on society with how we are defining everything, rather than looking at the environment, knowing we wouldn’t have this pain in the first place if we didn’t even think that our skin colour made us a different race when it’s merely due to climate and migration, or our genatalia made us a different gender, we could all then feel comfort in knowing we are all human and find a greater sense of belonging. Although these ideas have always been in my mind, they strengthened when I first lived in New York in 2012 and Bushwick was really happening, people were wearing whatever they wanted, doing whatever they wanted and kissing whoever they wanted. It seemed none of those social constructs mattered in this bubble I found, everyone just wanted to have fun and people weren’t judging each other. It was a really inspiring time in my life, to see a group of people who were so fluid, not caring about a defined gender and sexuality and it seems that we all just got along, enjoying the night as equals."

 (Harrison George Hains, meglio noto col nome d'arte Harry Hains, attore, modello e musicista; Melbourne, 4 dicembre 1992 – Los Angeles, 7 gennaio 2020)

 

"Life is but a memory happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show."

(Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake, cantautore; Yangon, 19 giugno 1948 – Tanworth-in-Arden, 25 novembre 1974)

"I should have been a clown. I am always getting slapped. The slaps come from every direction, from the people I want to help, from those I want to love, for the big and little guys I am sorry for."

(Carole Landis, nome d'arte di Frances Lillian Mary Ridste, attrice; Fairchild, 1º gennaio 1919 – Los Angeles, 5 luglio 1948)

"I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the people there. I was in awe of that whole Halston-Liza Minnelli crowd. To me, they were the real celebrities and I was just a girl from Idaho. So I drank to loosen up. I never thought then that alcohol would become a problem. In my grandfather's time it was a virtue to be able to drink a lot and never show it. And like him, I wanted to live life to the fullest, with gusto."

(Margaux Hemingway, top model e attrice; Portland, 16 febbraio 1954 – Santa Monica, 1º luglio 1996)

“All of us are products of our childhood.”

(Michael Joseph Jackson, the King of Pop, Gary, 29 agosto 1958 – Los Angeles, 25 giugno 2009)

"Je crois que mon rêve a toujours été de devenir quelqu'un. De reussir dans la vie, dans la spectacle, je ne savais pas exactement quoi, mais cette ou chante ou joue la comédie, ou faire du cinema ou du teatre... c'était le spectacle."

(Dalida, pseudonimo di Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, cantante, attrice e Miss Egitto nel 1954; Il Cairo, 17 gennaio 1933 – Parigi, 3 maggio 1987)

Lolo Ferrari, pseudonimo di Ève Geneviève Aline Vallois, famosa per i suoi 180 cm. di seno finiti nel Guinness dei primati; Clermont-Ferrand, 9 febbraio 1963 – Grasse, 5 marzo 2000)

"Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it."

(Margaret Sullavan, nome d'arte di Margaret Brooke Sullavan Hancock, attrice; Norfolk, 16 maggio 1909 – New Haven, 1º gennaio 1960)

"The first time you buy a house you think how pretty it is and sign the check. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men."

(Lupe Vélez, pseudonimo di María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez, attrice e ballerina; San Luis Potosí, 18 luglio 1908 – Beverly Hills, 13 dicembre 1944)

"I'll do anything to earn an honest living although I still believe that it is in Hollywood where I belong."

(Mary Nolan, conosciuta anche come Imogen Wilson o Bubbles, all'anagrafe Mary Imogene Robertson, modella di nudo, ballerina, attrice, spesso invischiata in scandali che le rovinarono definitivamente la carriera; Louisville, 18 dicembre 1905 – Hollywood, 31 ottobre 1948)

"Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything."

(Jean Seberg, attrice; Marshalltown, 13 novembre 1938 – Parigi, 30 agosto 1979)

"Mostly I've played other roles, but even when I've played other parts people see me differently. In America, when you have an accent, in the mind of the people they associate you with kissing hands and being gallant. I think that has harmed me, just as it has harmed me to be followed and plagued by a line I never said."

(Charles Boyer, latin lover poliglotta nei film di Hollywood; Figeac, 28 agosto 1899 – Phoenix, 26 agosto 1978)

"People say I'm wearing heels because I'm short. I wear heels because the women like 'em."

(Prince Rogers Nelson, cantante; Minneapolis, 7 giugno 1958 – Chanhassen, 21 aprile 2016)