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Turning 43 Today: Eddie Redmayne. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 6, 1982 · Westminster, London, England, UK

Birth name
Edward John David Redmayne

Spouse
Hannah Redmayne (December 15, 2014 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

[on being an actor] I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great – and is great – there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it’s going well, you’re not allowed to complain. Your actor friends will understand the nuances of a painful director, or the loneliness of being… okay, in a beautiful hotel room somewhere exotic. But you’re by yourself for six months, and you’re thinking, “Oh God, I wish I could share it with someone.” I’m trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you’re constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you’ve had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there’s not a line of continuity to it. [Interview with Fran Babb, November 2011]

[on the process of learning lines] That’s what’s been keeping me up at night. What I love about this, though, is that Daniel Day-Lewis and Ryan Gosling have to learn lines, too. Do you know what I mean? However, genius Ryan Gosling is on the ukulele, however brilliant other people are, it’s reassuring to know that even Ben Kingsley has to walk around his room learning lines. It’s the great leveller.

[on his favorite color] The color that Yves Klein does. Wet paint has a luminosity that dies when it dries and it loses the gloss. So Yves created this color scientifically that retains that luminosity. He was a big showman, so he got it copyrighted. The color is called IKB-International Klein Blue. And it sounds all bullshit-y and ridiculous, but when you stand in front of those canvases, the color is sublime and dumbfounding. So that specific color is my favorite color in the world. Are you going to follow this up with a colorblind question? (No, wasn’t planning on it, but if you want to discuss it. [interviewer vs. salisbury]) No, I talk passionately about that color and then people go “But you’re colorblind.” And I go, “I know. I don’t know what I see but I see it and I like it.”.

Turning 41 Today: Kate McKinnon. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 6, 1984 · Sea Cliff, New York, USA

Birth name
Kathryn McKinnon Berthold

QUOTES:

For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I’ve already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn’t thinking about it.

I started watching ‘SNL’ when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.
I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I’m frantic. But I didn’t want to be one of those people who’s always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.

Happy Birthday Loretta Young (1913-2000), Would be 112 today.

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Born
January 6, 1913 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Died
August 12, 2000 · Los Angeles, California, USA (ovarian cancer)

Birth name
Gretchen Michaela Young

Spouses
Jean Louis (August 10, 1993 – April 20, 1997) (his death)
Tom Lewis (July 31, 1940 – August 20, 1969) (divorced, 2 children)
Grant Withers (January 26, 1930 – September 15, 1931) (divorced)

QUOTES:

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared – mentally, physically and spiritually – for our separation from this world.
Our human connections are guided by God, and ultimately all of us are linked through His love. Thus, we have all already met, not as actress and fan but as His children, and we can never be lost to each other.

What you don’t know intrigues you more than what you do know. I believed all those love stories – the hero was the hero – because that’s what I grew up with. I loved the romance and the roses, but when it came to a more realistic life, I would back away.

Turning 94 Today: Robert Duvall. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 5, 1931 · San Diego, California, USA

Birth name
Robert Selden Duvall

Spouses
Luciana Pedraza(October 6, 2004 – present)
Sharon Brophy(May 1, 1991 – 1996) (divorced)
Gail Youngs(August 22, 1982 – 1986) (divorced)
Barbara Benjamin(December 31, 1964 – 1975) (divorced)

QUOTES:

[on the reason he did not appear in The Godfather Part III (1990)] If they paid Pacino twice what they paid me, that’s fine, but not three or four times, which is what they did. (Francis Ford Coppola) came to my farm, parked his car… went in the kitchen. (I) said: “I know you always wanted the crab cake recipe, let me cook it for you.” Oh, he loves to eat, so I cooked the crab cake… and he wrote it down… and he forgot it, so he called twice. He was… more concerned that he forgot the crab cake recipe than would I be in Godfather III. [January 8, 2004]

[on Hollywood political activists] They should keep their mouths shut.

Being a star is an agent’s dream, not an actor’s.

[on James Dean] I don’t think he was that great. He was good, but there was Brando, and there was founding member Steven Hill in the Actors Studio, those were the two guys. James Dean came in third. Dean was talented, obviously. But he died at a good time.

Turning 66 Today: Clancy Brown. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 5, 1959 · Urbana, Ohio, USA

Birth name
Clarence John Brown III

Spouse
Jeanne Johnson(June 26, 1993 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

If it’s something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don’t grab me. So, I’m not a very good actor in that way. I can’t fake it.

Why should we change on stage? We’re not trying to be something big and fancy, it’s just us, doing what we do, we’d like to keep it that way.

When you see something that’s so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

Whatever comes next for this generation, that’s going to be the greatest voice.

Atrocities are human nature – they don’t have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it’s human.
Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

Turning 50 Today: Bradley Cooper. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 5, 1975 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth name
Bradley Charles Cooper

Spouse
Jennifer Esposito (December 21, 2006 – November 10, 2007) (divorced)

QUOTES:

There was a lot of Sack Lodges at my high school. – Sack Lodge is his character from Wedding Crashers (2005).

[on getting the script for Kitchen Confidential (2005)] I was in New York shooting Law & Order (1990) and the script came along, and I completely connected to it. From the first page, when he says, “Ever since I was eight years old, I knew what I wanted to be.” When I was eight years old, I wanted to be a chef or an actor. I used to cook all the time. I worked in restaurants the first half of my life. (November 2005)

I had size 12 feet when I was 10, so I thought I was going to be 6′ 8″. My goal was to be able to dunk a basket. I wound up being 6′ 1″ with size 14 feet. I got the raw end of the deal.

[2010, on his younger years] I never lived the life of “Oh, you’re so good-looking.” People thought I was a girl when I was little, because I looked like a girl – maybe because my mother would keep my hair really long in a bowl cut. I was in a coffee shop once and the waitress was like “What do you want, Miss?” I was 10 or 11 – the worst age to have that happen. I had a jean jacket on and a Metallica pin. I thought I was really cool.

Turning 79 Today: Diane Keaton. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 5, 1946 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth name
Diane Hall

QUOTES:

Of course I recognized myself in the roles [Woody Allen] wrote. I mean, in Annie Hall (1977) particularly. I was this sort of novice who had lots of feelings but didn’t know how to express herself, and I see that in Annie. I think Woody used a kind of essential quality that he found in me at that time, and I’m glad he did because it worked really well in the movie.

I build a wall around myself. I’m hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I think about dying every single day. I’ve lost lots of friends, and they die in the most bizarre ways. It’s like, “That can’t possibly be! How could that have happened?” And all I can think is, “That could have been me.”

It’s kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well. Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren’t looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

Turning 47 Today: January Jones. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 5, 1978 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA

Birth name
January Kristen Jones

QUOTES:

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in American Wedding (2003). I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

[on her Mad Men (2007) character]: I don’t judge Betty or necessarily understand her. The audience is passionate about her. After season one they wanted her to speak out against Don and his infidelities. Then in season two, when she did, there was a huge reaction against Betty. They want her to talk – just not too much.

[on moving to New York] I was excited to be independent, but I was also naive–I just wanted to be rich and famous. I lived in an apartment near the Empire State Building. There were a billion girls in New York City who wanted to be models. After a while I was immune to rejection, which helped when I went out to L.A. to become an actress. In modeling, the criteria is purely aesthetic. So when I got to L.A., I didn’t care if they said I was too small, too blonde, too pretty, or not pretty enough.

Turning 20 Today: Dafne Keen. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 4, 2005 · Madrid, Spain

Birth name
Daphne Keen Fernández

In 2016, she auditioned for the part of Lyra in His Dark Materials (2019). Although she had submitted her audition tape, she didn’t get a response for a while. However, while she was on vacation in Puerto Rico in 2017, she was later asked to make one more take. But before she recorded it, she decided to go swimming, and she was stung in the face by a jellyfish. She recorded her second audition tape with a swollen face. Nevertheless, that situation didn’t interfere with her getting the part.

Turning 29 Today: Emma Mackey. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 4, 1996 · Le Mans, France

[In an interview for Irish Times in regards to French and British cliches] I can’t speak for an entire country. I don’t see France as repressed. But I don’t see it as super-liberated either. I do get annoyed at the cliches. No, not all French people want to have sex all the time. Not all French people have hairy armpits. It’s the same with British people. We are not all stiff-upper-lip and coy. That’s not true either. Let’s get past these things.

[In an interview for Irish Times in regards to the education system and sex] It’s astonishing. We can send people to the moon and do all this amazing stuff. Yet we can’t find a contraceptive that doesn’t muck with women’s hormones. We can’t find a contraceptive for men. And we don’t teach sex education in schools.