George Harrison (1943–2001)

Born: February 25, 1943 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Died: November 29, 2001 (age 58) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

[on the reasons why he became a vegetarian] People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

[in 1997, about his battle with throat cancer] I got it purely from smoking. Luckily, they found that this nodule was more of a warning than anything else. I’m not going to die on you folks just yet. Life is like a raindrop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realizes that you are either a very lucky person or you’re not.

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Cary Grant (1904–1986)

Born: January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, UK
Died: November 29, 1986 (age 82) in Davenport, Iowa, USA

For more than thirty years of my life I had smoked with increasing habit. I was finally separated from the addiction by Betsy [wife Betsy Drake], who, after carefully studying hypnosis, practiced it, with my full permission and trust, as I was going off to sleep one night. She sat in a chair near the bed and, in a quiet, calm voice, rhythmically repeated what I inwardly knew to be true, the fact that smoking was not good for me; and, as my conscious mind relaxed and no longer cared to offer a negative thought, her words sank into my subconscious; and the following day, to my surprise I had no need or wish to smoke. Nor have I smoked since. Nor have I, as far as I…

Natalie Wood (1938–1981)

Born: July 20, 1938 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: November 29, 1981 (age 43) in Santa Catalina Island, California, USA

[in 1961] In so many ways I think it’s a bore to be sorry you were a child actor – so many people feel sorry for you automatically. At the time, I wasn’t aware of the things I missed, so why should I think of them in retrospect? Everybody misses something or other.

I felt a little funny when we were going to do the bed scene, all four of us, in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). I’m open to suggestions, I’m no prude, but four is a crowd in my book. Fortunately, Dyan Cannon was there. The thought of another woman being in there in the bed helped get me through it. It’s not like it sounds. It’s just that I don’t…

Gemma Chan

Born: November 29, 1982 in London, England, UK

In October 2012 she witnessed a murder of a homeless gentleman outside the Putney Bridge Tube station in West London. She stayed with the gentleman while medics and police were called, but he soon expired. In September 2013 she gave evidence in the trial of the defendant.

Exam 2009 dir. Stuart Hazeldine Cast Luke Mably Adar Beck

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Lauren German

Born: November 29, 1978 in Huntington Beach, California, USA

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Lucas Black

Born: November 29, 1982 in Speake, Alabama, USA

Married to:
Maggie O’Brien (3 July 2010 – present)

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don’t think it’s easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself. [About turning down a part in The Horse Whisperer (1998) because he was required to change his accent]

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Joel Coen

Born: November 29, 1954 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Married to: Frances McDormand (1 April 1984 – present) (1 child)

I like Hollywood just the way it is, actually. I don’t think I’d change anything. I like that it’s out here 3,000 miles from where I live.

Someone asked us once how we adapt novels, and Ethan [Coen] said, “Joel holds the book open by the spine, while I retype it into the computer…Don’t change it [the book] if it’s not broken!

[on his and his brother Ethan’s choice of characters in their films] What’s interesting to us are the people you know that are very good at what they do but aren’t necessarily successful.

Raising Arizona 1987 dir. Joel and Ethan Coen starring Nicolas Cage Holly Hunter

Miller’s Crossing 1990 dir. Joel and Ethan Coen starring Gabriel Byrne Marcia Gay Harden

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Chadwick Boseman

Born: November 29, 1976 in Anderson, South Carolina, USA

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don’t really say that I’m an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.

42 2013 dir. Brian Helgeland Stars: Chadwick Boseman Harrison Ford

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