"I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another."
(Peter Seamus O'Toole, attore; Leeds, 2 agosto 1932 – Londra, 14 dicembre 2013)
"I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another."
(Peter Seamus O'Toole, attore; Leeds, 2 agosto 1932 – Londra, 14 dicembre 2013)
"My name is properly pronounced "vor'shack". The D remains silent. I have had quite a time with the name, having been called practically everything from Balzac to Bickelsrock."
(Ann Dvorak, nata Anna McKim, attrice; New York, 2 agosto 1911 – Honolulu, 10 dicembre 1979)
"Massa è tutto ciò che non valuta se stesso - né in bene né in male - mediante ragioni speciali, ma che si sente "come tutto il mondo", e tuttavia non se ne angustia, anzi si sente a suo agio nel riconoscersi identico agli altri." da La ribellione delle masse,
(José Ortega y Gasset, filosofo e sociologo; Madrid, 9 maggio 1883 – Madrid, 18 ottobre 1955)
"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."
(John Ford, nato John Martin Feeney, regista e produttore cinematografico; Cape Elizabeth, 1º febbraio 1894 – Palm Desert, 31 agosto 1973)
"Il fine della Chiesa, depositaria unica e suprema della rivelazione, resta in ogni caso quello di riassumere e risolvere la politica nella religione. Ma il fine dello Stato, di qualunque Stato degno del nome, è precisamente lo stesso, rovesciato: risolvere la religione nella politica, Dio nell'uomo. Ogni Stato è anche Chiesa; l'autorità politica è necessariamente autorità morale; la storia politica si configura logicamente come «storia sacra». I suoi fini politici sono anche morali e religiosi: comprendono e riassorbono in sé tutta la possibile morale e religione." da Il papato socialista.
(Giovanni Spadolini, politico, storico e giornalista; Firenze, 21 giugno 1925 – Roma, 4 agosto 1994)
"LSD came in 1965. In retrospect, it seems now as though all of the elements that made it possible for acid to do what it did were assembled there in the Bay Area. Ken Kesey had recently brought his well-we-started-in-Oregon-sort-of band of hippies, beatniks, ne'er-do-wells, always-so-wells, insane people, sane people, a few freaks and some hangers-on to La Honda, just over a few miles from Palo Alto. Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions had started evolving into the Warlocks, who would soon become the Grateful Dead. There was an emerging political, intellectual, revolutionary, coffee-shop type of scene, primarily in Berkeley. So it was like, "Well, we got the wiring in and the lamps in, let's throw this switch and see if the thing lights up". It did. I had been smoking grass for two years, but acid was like that times ten, with a bunch of interesting weirdness thrown in. Acid was different, it was very special, and you probably didn't want to do it every day."
(John Collins Dawson IV, detto Marmaduke, musicista e cantautore, cofondatore delle band Greatful Dead e New Riders Of The Purple Sage; Detroit, 16 giugno 1945 – San Miguel de Allende, 21 luglio 2009)
"I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change."
(Gloria Laura Vanderbilt, ereditiera, attrice, stilista, pittrice e scrittrice; New York, 20 febbraio 1924 – New York, 17 giugno 2019)
"You stay in the business longer. Even leading men who have been character actors prolong their careers--we all know character actors who have been around for a long time. I was always a character actor."
(Jack Gilford, nato Jacob Aaron Gellman, attore caratterista e comico; New York, 25 luglio 1907 – New York, 4 giugno 1990)
"Timing is a big thing with actors. You don't ever want to over-rehearse, but you don't want them under-prepared either. Part of the trick is knowing when to roll the cameras. So many times I'll see a performance peak during the rehearsal process and they never quite get it back. That's why I'd rather be rolling early."
(Sydney Irwin Pollack, regista, attore e produttore; Lafayette, 1º luglio 1934 – Pacific Palisades, 26 maggio 2008)