Happy Birthday

Turning 35 Today: Bill Skarsgård

festreviews Happy Birthday

QUOTES:

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is. I wasn’t sure of what i wanted to do, until Arn.

[on succeeding Tim Curry as Pennywise] Tim Curry’s performance was truly great, but it’s important for me to do something different because of that. I’ll never be able to make a Tim Curry performance as good as Tim Curry.

A lot of people ask how actors learn their lines. It’s a very mechanical thing that anyone can do really. It’s all about repetition. The job as an actor is about blowing life into the text and finding pauses. That’s the exciting part, how to act and approach different parts.

Part of being an actor is having the face for the role, right? There’s always some extent of luck going into getting a job. I try not to think too much about my own looks or how I work. There’s a danger in becoming too self-aware.

Turning 40 Today: Anna Kendrick

festreviews Happy Birthday

QUOTES:

People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I’m tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don’t like Twilight, don’t buy a ticket.

I guess I’m drawn to… I think, even when I read serious scripts, the moments that I connect to are the little glimpses of humor, because, you know, I think every script, no matter how serious it is, has bits of humor in it. Even End of Watch is really funny. So those are the moments where I can kind of see what I can do with it that’s different, and I feel like that’s the easiest way for me to get inside a character’s head, is through the humor, like what sense of humor they have.

I sort of marvel at myself. Maybe at a certain point everybody feels like the person they were when they were younger is a stranger. Because I seemed to be much more driven and focused at that age. I had the intention of being on Broadway. I am just very grateful that my parents treated me with respect… and really, really supported me.

Turning 71 Today: Sam Elliot

festreviews Happy Birthday

QUOTES:

[in the December 1976 issue of “Playgirl”] I don’t want to be known as a sex symbol. There’s a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

I’ve spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of ’em go to other actors.

I was really happy that Ang Lee won the Best Director award, I got to know him very well on Hulk (2003). But I’m not the Brokeback Mountain (2005) crowd, what can I tell ya. I’m more of a purist. But at the same time, it’s a new day.

I’m picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity and that’s to be careful about what kind of work you do. You can work for money, do a lot of whatever comes your way and not have any kind of a yardstick to measure quality by, and people, you know you’ll make a lot of money if you’re lucky, and people will get fed up and sick of seeing you and that’s it onto the next one. – On his career choices.

Turning 57 Today: Gillian Anderson

festreviews Happy Birthday

QUOTES:

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character . . .

When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity . . . and mediocrity scares the fuck out of me!

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don’t like showing their passports. It’s becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn’t mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There’s so much fear in America and control.

Turning 42 Today: Dan Levy

festreviews Happy Birthday

  • Dan came out to his mother at age 18. Dan’s dad was waiting for him to come out, but his mom couldn’t wait and asked her son if he was gay. Dan said “Yes!”.
  • Older brother of Sarah Levy.
  • He was in on a joke when he was hosting Saturday Night Live. He was showing the audience the backstage area when he comes across his dad Eugene Levy in a Plexiglas isolation box. Eugene wasn’t aware of the isolation box until he came in from Los Angeles.

Turning 68 Today: Melanie Griffith

festreviews Happy Birthday

QUOTES:

  • [about her work with James Woods] It’s kind of like being pregnant. You know, you go through the initial joy of it. Then you go through wanting it to be over. And then you’re finished with it and you forget how bad it was.
  • There’s a bit of a stripper in every woman.
  • I don’t walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.
  • I don’t think I’m beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me – and, I’m pretty used to me.

Turning 44 Today: Meagan Good

festreviews Happy Birthday

QUOTES:

I love creme liner because I have lash extensions and sometimes the liquid liner can get into the lashes. It’s also easier to guide. I can create straighter lines with it.

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!

Make sure your desire to do what you’re aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0328709/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm#:~:text=I%20use%20bath,1%20more