Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Felicity Huffman

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Born
December 9, 1962 · Bedford, New York, USA

Birth name
Felicity Kendall Huffman

Spouse
William H. Macy(September 6, 1997 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are. [acceptance speech at the 66th Golden Globe]

[on her Oscar nomination] I’m shot into the stratosphere. You can’t pasteurize the Academy Award. You can’t negotiate it. It is the top. It is the biggest thing ever. I’ve been hopping around and screaming all morning.

In the new millennium, we’re fighting against the icon of the perfect mother. I don’t know about here, but in America you’re not allowed to talk about how it’s driving you crazy, or how you don’t like it, or how, if you have to give a bath one more time, you’re going to pull your hair out. Because then you’re considered a bad mom. There’s a very established conversation or litany, which is, “Isn’t motherhood the best?” To me, that question just isn’t applicable. You can complain about your job, you can complain about your husband, you can complain about your friends, but God forbid you complain about your kids.

Happy Birthday Judi Dench

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Born
December 9, 1934 · York, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Birth name
Judith Olivia Dench

Spouse
Michael Williams(February 5, 1971 – January 11, 2001) (his death, 1 child)

QUOTES:

[on her long marriage to Michael Williams] We were just happy to be in the same room together.

My only regret is that I didn’t have more children.

[in 1994, when asked why A Room with a View (1985) was such a success] I’ve never seen it, so I don’t know. Florence was lovely, of course, and it’s a wonderful love story. I did enjoy doing the part, because Maggie Smith and I were old friends from 1958. We both arrived in Florence on the same day and neither of us had any family with us, so we would spend all day together filming and then go out to dinner together, catching up on our Old Vic days. But I didn’t enjoy working with James Ivory. I didn’t feel that I was on his wavelength and I didn’t feel that he wanted me in the film, I have to say that. I remember doing that scene in the middle of the square where she goes mad and attacks the man selling postcards; James went to see the rushes and told me afterwards that everyone had laughed at it, they’d thought it was very funny. “Well done”, he said to me. I thought perhaps we’d turned the corner but, when I came to post-sync the film, that scene was missing. When I asked why, he told me that Helena Bonham Carter hadn’t been feeling up to it that day, so he’d cut the whole sequence. I don’t know if that was the real reason he cut it – I just don’t know.

Happy Birthday Ian Somerhalder

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Born
December 8, 1978 · Covington, Louisiana, USA

Birth name
Ian Joseph Somerhalder

Spouse
Nikki Reed (April 26, 2015 – present) (1 child)

QUOTES:

[About his co-star, Maggie Grace] “She’s hateable in Lost (2004), but really she’s the sweetest, most adorable thing on the planet”.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can’t hide anything from them.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that’s the Roaring Twenties.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

I can’t let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what’s unsustainable in their communities. That’s the future.

Happy Birthday Tanner Buchanan

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Born
December 8, 1998 · Lima, Ohio, USA

[on feeling insecure about his physique due to the high standard set for men today] [My] biggest insecurity [is] how muscular I am though I’m usually not insecure about it. But I feel like being in the business that we are, [there’s] a standard, you feel this pressure on you to be in good shape. Specifically now with all the superhero movies, as much as I would love to do one. It’s a very high standard.

Happy Birthday Nancy Meyers

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Born
December 8, 1949 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth name
Nancy Jane Meyers

Spouse
Charles Shyer (1980 – 1999) (divorced, 2 children)

QUOTES:

Movies don’t look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody’s character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it’s creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn’t mean I know how to fix them.

I don’t diet, I don’t do fads, I’ve just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can’t live without chocolate, though. I’ve always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it’s too sweet, any more and it’s inedible. Like I said, I’m very particular.

I don’t shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it’s because I’m looking for something.

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn’t have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

I wasn’t the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn’t know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

We don’t want to be our own niche. We’re filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

Happy Birthday Kim Basinger

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Born
December 8, 1953 · Athens, Georgia, USA

Birth name
Kimila Ann Basinger

Spouses
Alec Baldwin (August 19, 1993 – September 3, 2002) (divorced, 1 child)
Ron Snyder (October 12, 1980 – December 23, 1989) (divorced)

QUOTES:

[on Sean Connery] I fantasize about riding an Arabian horse bareback with him along a sandy beach. We fall naked to the ground and, as the horse wanders off along the water’s edge, we make passionate love in the moonlight. It always leaves me hot and bothered. I just love the man.

[on kissing in the movies] There’s an absolute art to it. You have to think it’s as good as what’s coming later.
[on performing in the nude] I thoroughly enjoy it, actually.

I don’t really live in a time zone. I don’t abide by the rules here on earth.

All of us are male and female. Take me–I’m strong; I’m weak; I’m everything. It’s intriguing to see a man who has chosen not to pick up on all the stereotypical male traits, who keeps only the most powerful ones, and leaves a lot of the stuff that society lays on you at home. I love a man who knows his femininity. I love a man who can cry. I love a man who’s not afraid to delve into the female psyche and become a part of it. Have tea with the girls, emotionally. I love people who aren’t afraid of what other people are gonna say about them. You know, it’s all society’s rules, man. You gotta drop ’em and not be afraid to be yourself. Some days, I dress very, very masculine–wear men’s clothes. Other days, I dress up in high heels and garter belts and miniskirts. It all depends on what I feel like!

Happy Birthday Teri Hatcher

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Born
December 8, 1964 · Palo Alto, California, USA

Birth name
Teri Lynn Hatcher

Spouses
Jon Tenney (May 27, 1994 – March 5, 2003) (divorced, 1 child)
Markus Leithold (June 4, 1988 – June 2, 1989) (divorced)

QUOTES:

Despite the fact that I have a good-size pair of breasts … in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993), I have the opportunity to show the world they’re not my only attribute.

What’s good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.

[on her audition for Desperate Housewives (2004)] I had to test, the whole rigmarole, but it was one of the greatest auditions I ever had. I left the building knowing I had this.

Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I’ve done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that’s what they should be. You shouldn’t be beating yourself up.

[on her marriage to Jon Tenney] I was consumed with being a mom. I didn’t think beyond that.

[on turning 40] I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don’t know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.

Happy Birthday Eli Wallach (1915-2014)

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Born
December 7, 1915 · Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Died
June 24, 2014 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA (natural causes)

Birth name
Eli Herschel Wallach

Spouse
Anne Jackson(March 5, 1948 – June 24, 2014) (his death, 3 children)

QUOTES:

I never lost my appetite for acting.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.

I’ve learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

But Clint [Eastwood] I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.

When I saw the movie, I said, “I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.”.

I’ve never lost my appetite for acting; it’s innovative and challenging.

And that movie was underrated – Nuts (1987) – because it deals with a terrible subject, but It’s very well done.

And I did Batman (1966), too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I’ve ever done.

Even if I don’t want to slow down, I’m slowing down.