Sometimes I wonder if I’m doing a Jimmy Stewart imitation myself.
Happy birthday James Maitland Stewart (May 20th 1908 - July 2nd 1997)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATHARINE HEPBURN | May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003
With me, it’s up every day at five. Big breakfast. I get it myself. Fruit, eggs, bacon, chicken livers, toast, marmalade, coffee. On a tray. Carry it back to bed. Lovely the silence of the early hours. Do all my studying and thinking as I eat and drink. The sun rises. You seldom see it. But light comes. Misty. Slowly clearing. Light rains. Heavenly climate for a freckled skin. Then a cold bath or shower. A bike ride if I’m read early—before the car gets there. Go to work around seven.
Happy 106th Birthday, Katharine Hepburn
(May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003)“Time with her was more than time well spent. A little bit with her was worth days and weeks and months with somebody else.”
- Lauren Bacall“She’s the most completely honest woman I’ve ever met.”
- Cary Grant“She used to say to me, ‘Be fascinating, Christopher,’ and I’d say, ‘Well, that’s easy for you. The rest of us have to work at it.’”
- Christopher Reeve
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUDREY HEPBURN
May 4, 1929
“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”
James Scott
BumgarnerGarner - April 7, 1928I got into the business to put a roof over my head. I wasn’t looking for star status. I just wanted to keep working.Happy 85th Birthday!!
Happy Birthday Leslie Howard!(3 April 1893 - 1 June 1943)
The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists. It is easy and pleasurable for them to shout, to weep, to tear their hair, to laugh, to make love. They enjoy it and they make their audience enjoy it. They are the ideal actors. As a boy the possibility of being an actor never even occurred to me. Nor could it have occurred to anybody who knew the shy and inarticulate youth that I was. I wanted to write. I felt I could express myself on paper; alone in a room I felt articulate and creative. But I was also lazy, a thing a writer never dare be. Application is, I am convinced, the first rule for authors. Then, mysteriously, a part in a play offered itself — at time when to earn a living was a prime motive of existence. And then another part in another play. And gradually the miracle took place. The metamorphosis of a nervous, inhibited, agoraphobic individual who had other ambitions altogether into a quite successful actor.
Marlon Brando || April 3, 1924 - July 1, 2004
Nobody creates a character but an actor. I play the role; now he exists. He is my creation.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH TAYLOR | February 27, 1932 - March 23, 2011
“The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.”
Happy 106th Birthday, Ray Milland
(January 3, 1907 - March 10, 1986)“My philosophy is do what you can with what you’ve got.”
“Only England could have produced her. She was the perfect English rose. When the door opened and she was there, she was so terribly good-looking. She had such an exquisite unreality about her.”
- Diana VreelandHappy Birthday, Vivien Leigh!
