Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday: Steve Buscemi

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Born
December 13, 1957 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Spouse
Jo Andres (1987 – January 6, 2019) (her death, 1 child)

Birth name
Steven Vincent Buscemi

QUOTES:

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don’t know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

In the beginning, it wasn’t even a question of deciding I’m going to do independent film and not commercial films — I wasn’t being offered any commercial films, and there wasn’t an independent scene. I did a lot of “so-called” independent films that were really low-budget films trying to be commercial. But you certainly make choices when you have a script written by Jim Jarmusch or the Coen brothers or Alexandre Rockwell; I think any actor would feel lucky to be able to work on projects like that.

It’s weird; I was not a really tough guy in high school, but I end up playing all of these psychopaths and criminals. I don’t really care who they are, as long as they are complicated and going through something that I can understand and put across.

As much as you tell yourself, ‘We made the film and here it is and that is enough,’ you would like to come away with something.

Happy Birthday: Jamie Foxx

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LOS ANGELES – JUN 2: Jamie Foxx at the 17th Annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball at Private Residence on June 2, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA
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Born
December 13, 1967 · Terrell, Texas, USA

Birth name
Eric Marlon Bishop

QUOTES:

[on wearing prosthetic eyelids which made him blind in Ray (2004)] After six hours of being blind, you lose the sense of how a person is physically. It was amazing to hear the little buzzing voices all around you.

[2005 Academy Awards acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ray (2004)] I guess we got to do it again. “Oh, ah!” Yeah, you’re ready. That’s for Ray Charles. Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

I got so many people to thank tonight. First I want to start it out with Taylor Hackford. Taylor, you took a chance, man. I mean that love for Ray Charles was deep, down in the earth. It’s cracked open. And it’s spilling. And everybody’s drowning in this love. I thank you for taking a chance on this film. And thank you for waiting 15 years to get me to do it. I want to thank you. I want to thank Crusader. I want to thank my agents. I want to thank Rick Kurtzman. I want to thank Kim Hodges. I want to thank Steve Smooke. I want to thank my managers, Jaime King [Jaime Rucker King] and Marcus King. Let’s live this African-American dream. It’s beautiful. I’m glad I’m with you. I ain’t never leaving you. I’m glad I’m with you.

I got a chance to meet a whole lot of people, experiencing this. And other people I want to thank, I want to thank my sister. Four feet, eleven inches of nothing but pure love. I want to thank my daughter for telling me just before I got up here, “If you don’t win, dad, you’re still good.

I’m just … I see Oprah [Oprah Winfrey] and I see Halle [Halle Berry]. I just want to say your names. I want to talk to you later. Both of you. Because Oprah got — allowed me to meet somebody by the name of Sidney Poitier. And, yes, Sidney Poitier said, “I saw you once. And I looked in your eyes and there was a connection.” And he says, “I give to you responsibility.” So, I’m taking that responsibility tonight. And, thank you, Sidney.

Happy Birthday: Wendie Malick

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Born
December 13, 1950 · Buffalo, New York, USA

Birth name
Wendie Diane Malick

Spouses
Richard Oscar Erickson(December 29, 1995 – present)
Mitch Glazer(January 1982 – November 19, 1989) (divorced)

QUOTES:

[Commenting on a “National Enquirer” story about her and her husband] They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck, I go and send it to poor people, and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate.

Happy Birthday: Emma Corrin

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Born
December 13, 1995 · Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK

[on gender and using she/they pronouns] “I think visibility is key with these things. My journey has been a long one and has still got a long way to go. I think we are so used to defining ourselves. That’s the way society works within these binaries and it’s taken me a long time to realise that I exist somewhere in between and I’m still not sure where that is yet.”

Happy Birthday: Taylor Swift

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Born
December 13, 1989 · Reading, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth name
Taylor Alison Swift

Height
5′ 10″ (1.78 m)

QUOTES:

There’s more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Everyone I know has had fair warning! I’ve always written about who’s spending time with me, so if they get into any kind of a relationship with me, they know what they’re getting into.

There is a strength in letting bygones be bygones. It was therapeutic to write and perform. Sometimes it’s best not to say anything. I just save it for the music.

Love is fascinating. Wishing for it, pining for it and the anger that comes when you lose it. I used to think that I could figure out some pattern to love, like if you don’t text a guy back for a half-hour, he’ll like you more. But there is no pattern. Absolutely nothing is predictable in love.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Almost every time I put something out, there’s the word ‘too’ put in front of it – too pop, too country, too rock. So I’ve kinda stopped worrying about it. I’d rather be too something than not enough something.

I see myself as kind of this girl who writes songs in her bedroom. You can dress it up all you want and you can put together an amazing theatrical production; you can become a better performer as time goes by, and you can try to excite people. But I’m always going to be a girl who writes songs in her bedroom in my own personal perception of myself.

Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra(1915-1998)

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Born
December 12, 1915 · Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

Died
May 14, 1998 · Los Angeles, California, USA (bladder cancer, and heart and kidney disease)

Birth name
Francis Albert Sinatra

Spouses
Barbara Sinatra (July 11, 1976 – May 14, 1998) (his death)
Mia Farrow (July 19, 1966 – August 16, 1968) (divorced)
Ava Gardner (November 7, 1951 – July 5, 1957) (divorced)
Nancy Barbato Sinatra (February 4, 1939 – October 29, 1951) (divorced, 3 children)

QUOTES:

[when Dean Martin walked out on The Together Again Tour] You can’t put a gun to his head. He just didn’t want to do it.
Nothing anybody’s said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

[after the deaths of Sammy Davis Jr., Ava Gardner, Jilly Rizzo and Dean Martin] I’m next. I ain’t scared, either. Everybody I ever knew is already over there.

[on Elvis Presley in 1957] Sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons; and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd – in plain fact, dirty – lyrics it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the Earth. This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac I deplore. His kind of music is deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

[on Ava Gardner] I love her, and God damn me for it.

You better get busy living, because dying’s a pain in the ass.

[on Elvis Presley’s death in 1977] There have been many accolades uttered about his talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree to wholeheartedly, I shall mi

Happy Birthday Bill Nighy

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Born
December 12, 1949 · Caterham, Surrey, England, UK

Birth name
William Francis Nighy

QUOTES:

I don’t smoke now, which is marvellous. My only addictions are caffeine and sugar.

I even wear a suit for improvisation workshops, rolling around. Well, acting’s a white-collar job, you know? You wear a suit.

I hate design which has nothing to do with function. When I first went to work and had digs, I would arrange that there was nothing in my room, just a bed and a chair. It was like a cell. And I once saw this thing on the telly where there were these two guys who lived in a minimalist house. Absolutely nothing in it, but they had a deal that if they left their shoes on the stairs in an interesting shape, and they both agreed, they could leave them there. I understand that.

There was a time when you were supposed to question everything the director said, to create some kind of conflict, out of which creativity would be born. But I love it when they tell you what to do, you know: “Start there, walk over there, say the line and I’ll shout: Cut!” I think it’s groovy. When we were filming with Stephen Poliakoff, his first note to me – he prefaced it with: “That was marvellous”, which is always a good start – anyway, his note was: “Don’t wiggle your eyes about so much,” and you know, my heart leapt. Because I know that. I know how to not make my eyes wiggle about.

Happy Birthday Regina Hall

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Born
December 12, 1970 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Birth name
Regina Lee Hall

QUOTES:

I believe in reincarnation. I think that’s why I’m always on some sort of spiritual quest.

I remember there was a script that I read that I loved, and my agent told me, “They went after Amy Adams, and she’s not doing it.” And I said, “I’ll do it!” And he was like, “They love you, but they’re going to Natalie Portman.” “Oh, right.” There’s always another.

Black audiences are what I’ve considered my base, and I will always make movies for that base.

I don’t want to act like in every moment of flirtation I’ve always been the victim. We know the dynamics of what is alluring to the opposite sex but also know there has to be boundaries.

Happy Birthday Mayim Bialik

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Born
December 12, 1975 · San Diego, California, USA

Birth name
Mayim Hoya Bialik

QUOTES:

As a kid, I felt really weird.

I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

A lot of stuff I wear I’ve had since high school.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things – they look like they should be on the catwalk.

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

Drama is what I did before ‘Blossom.’

I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

I don’t care much about conforming.

I don’t look like most women in the industry.

Happy Birthday Mädchen Amick

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TWIN PEAKS – Gallery – Shoot Date: December 1, 1989. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images) MADCHEN AMICK

Born
December 12, 1970 · Sparks, Nevada, USA

Birth name
Mädchen E. Amick

QUOTES:

I know Vikings (2013) isn’t really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

I do love that witches haven’t really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character . . . a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

I really loved The Witches of Eastwick (1987), the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, Witches of East End (2013) is really grounded. It’s not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.