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"The boughs that bear most hang lowest."
David Garrick
(02/19/1717 01/20/1779)
English actor, writer
"Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang."
George Burns
(01/20/1896 03/09/1996)
US comic, actor
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper."
John Ruskin
(02/08/1819 01/20/1900)
English critic
"All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
Federico Fellini
(01/20/1920 10/31/1993)
Italian filmmaker
"When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks."
Patricia Neal
(01/20/1926 )
US actor
"Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance."
King George V
(06/03/1865 01/20/1936)
British monarch
"Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world."
Malcolm McLaren
(01/20/1947 04/08/2010)
English entrepreneur
"Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit."
Nancy Kress
(01/20/1948 )
US writer
"Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool."
Bill Maher
(01/20/1956 )
US comic
"The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth."
Robinson Jeffers
(01/10/1887 01/20/1962)
US writer
"I've actually rented Björk's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth."
Rainn Wilson
(01/20/1966 )
US actor
, on what he's wearing to the Emmys, 2009
"I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality."
Skeet Ulrich
(01/20/1970 )
US actor
"Never darken my Dior again!"
Beatrice Lillie
(05/29/1898 01/20/1989)
Canadian actor
, to a waiter who spilled soup on her dress
"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."
Audrey Hepburn
(05/04/1929 01/20/1993)
Belgium-born actor
"I always ask myself, 'Is the movie that I am watching as interesting as a documentary of the same actors having lunch together?'"
Gene Siskel
(01/26/1946 01/20/1999)
US critic
(died near his birthday)
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