"My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way."

(Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg, cantautore, musicista e compositore; Peoria, 13 agosto 1951 – Deer Isle, 16 dicembre 2007)

 

"Rock journalism is people who can't write, preparing stories based on interviews with people who can't talk, in order to amuse people who can't read."

(Frank Vincent Zappa, musicista, cantante, compositore; Baltimora, 21 dicembre 1940 – Los Angeles, 4 dicembre 1993)

 

" I've stayed in this business because I believe the power of entertainment is in television. And that's why directing will be a big part of my future I fell that TV has been so good to me that I can best pay my dues to society this way."

(Bill Bixby, all'anagrafe Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III, attore, regista e produttore televisivo; San Francisco, 23 gennaio 1934 – Los Angeles, 21 novembre 1993)

 

"I came to realize I traveled best when I traveled no faster than a dog could trot."

(George Cadogan Gardner McKay, noto solo come Gardner McKay, attore e scrittore; New York, 10 giugno 1932 – 21 novembre 2001)

 

"I think I've probably done more television than any actor living."

(Edward Woodward, attore; Croydon, 1º giugno 1930 – Truro, 16 novembre 2009) 

 

"I honestly always thought my Masters in fine arts would get me further in the acting world than knowing how to work an espresso machine. That was a happy accident and I'm very, very grateful to have had that skill." a proposito del suo personaggio, Gunther, nella sitcom Friends.

(James Michael Tyler, attore; Winona, 28 maggio 1962 – Los Angeles, 24 ottobre 2021)

 

"In Italia non mi sento amato, qui sono quello che fa le canzoni popolari, il ruffiano. Non sono mai stato considerato un cantautore vero." dall'intervista di Carlo Vulpio, Toto Cutugno: «Quando ho visto morire mia sorellina di 7 anni. “L’Italiano”? Scritta al ristorante», corriere.it, 9 dicembre 2018.

(Toto Cutugno, all'anagrafe Salvatore Cutugno, cantautore, paroliere, compositore e conduttore televisivo; Fosdinovo, 7 luglio 1943 – Milano, 22 agosto 2023) 

 

"I tell everybody that I'm a quatre-sexual: I will do anything with anybody for a quarter."

 (Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr., conduttore televiivo e ideatore dei giochi "La ruota della fortuna" e "Jeopardy"; San Mateo, 6 luglio 1925 – Los Angeles, 12 agosto 2007)

 

"The joy of doing a play as an actor is that you've got that interaction with the audience and you're also your own editor. If I want to make a pause three quarters of an hour long, I can, whereas on television and film you've got an editor and if you feel there's a rhythm to a line and you want to say it that way, there's no guarantee it'll stay that way."

 (Geoffrey Hughes, attore; Wallasey, 2 febbraio 1944 – Isola di Wight, 27 luglio 2012)

"I'm not against outing in terms of being pegged as gay. I am gay, I always was. It can't really hurt me now, I mean professionally. But for them to reveal it as if they caught you, like some dirty little secret - that was despicable."

 (Dick Sargent, nome d'arte di Richard Stanford Cox, attore; Carmel-by-the-Sea, 19 aprile 1930 – Los Angeles, 8 luglio 1994)

 

"They had a sneak preview (of The Thing with Two Heads (1972)) on a Friday night. I went down there and the place was packed. They showed the thing and everybody just laughed and laughed. It was a great comedy. They released it as some kind of a horror film, but it wasn't."

 (Roger Perry, attore; Davenport, 7 maggio 1933 – Indian Wells, 12 luglio 2018)

 

"An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill."

 (Theodore Levitt, economista; Vollmerz, 1º marzo 1925 – Belmont, 28 giugno 2006)

 

"I remember beginning to realize that I was never going to do anything in California, but be another useful character actor, and that could continue that career indefinitely if I were prepared to."

 (Hume Cronyn, nome completo Hume Blake Cronyn Jr., attore; London, 18 luglio 1911 – Fairfield, 15 giugno 2003)

 

"Chi ama il prossimo suo come se stesso, o non conosce abbastanza il prossimo o non ama abbastanza se stesso."

 (Roberto Gervaso, giornalista, scrittore; Roma, 9 luglio 1937 – Milano, 2 giugno 2020)

"I don't know which was the greatest disaster: my career or my wives."

(Stewart Granger, pseudonimo di James Lablache-Stewart Jr., attore; Londra, 6 maggio 1913 – Santa Monica, 16 agosto 1993)

"Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do."

(Peter Wilton Cushing, attore; Kenley, 26 maggio 1913 – Canterbury, 11 agosto 1994)

"I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint."

(Don Ameche, pseudonimo di Dominic Felix Amici, attore; Kenosha, 31 maggio 1908 – Scottsdale, 6 dicembre 1993)

"Un'esperienza psichedelica è un viaggio verso nuovi reami di coscienza. La dimensione ed il contenuto dell'esperienza non hanno limiti, ed i suoi connotati caratteristici sono la trascendenza dei concetti verbali, delle dimensioni spazio-temporali e dell'ego o identità. Tali esperienze di coscienza espansa possono verificarsi in una varietà di modi: deprivazione sensoriale, esercizi yoga, meditazione disciplinata, estasi estetica o religiosa, oppure spontaneamente. Più recentemente sono diventate accessibili a tutti tramite l'ingestione di droghe psichedeliche quali psilocibina, mescalina, DMT, ecc. Chiaramente, non è la droga a produrre l'esperienza trascendentale. Essa funge solamente come chiave chimica - apre la mente, libera il sistema nervoso dagli schemi e dalle sue strutture ordinarie." (da L'esperienza psichedelica, 1993)

(Timothy Francis Leary, scrittore e psicologo; Springfield, 22 ottobre 1920 – Beverly Hills, 31 maggio 1996)

"In the 50s, when me and Natalie Wood and James Dean and Nick Adams and Tony Perkins suddenly arrived... God, it was a whole group of us that sort of felt like that earlier group - the John Barrymores, Errol Flynns, Sinatras, Clifts - were a little farther out than we were... So we tried to emulate that lifestyle. For instance, once Natalie and I decided we'd have an orgy. And Natalie says "O.K., but we have to have a champagne bath." So we filled the bathtub full of champagne. Natalie takes off her clothes, sits down in the champagne, starts screaming. We take her to the emergency hospital. That was *our* orgy, you understand?"

(Dennis Lee Hopper, attore, regista, fotografo; Dodge City, 17 maggio 1936 – Los Angeles, 29 maggio 2010)