- Best buds with 76er Tobias Harris.
- He is 7 foot 4 inches.
Turning 37 Today: Boban Marjanovic
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Turning 35 Today: Jennifer Lawrence
Yesterday, I had to do an interview. I was in a horrible mood. I couldn’t think of basic words. I could see my publicist in the background, mouthing things to say. They want you to be likable all the time, and I’m just not.
I’m doing what I love, and then I get months and months of rest. I have a lot of money for a 21-year-old. I can’t stand it when actors complain.
[on suffering through school] I always felt dumber than everybody else. I hated it. I hated being inside. I hated being behind a desk. School just kind of killed me.
It’s always been about the script and the director, for me. There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn’t have a good director, it won’t be that. I like to adapt to a director’s way of working. I love doing that. Each director is so different, and you have to adapt to this new way of doing something. That’s what’s amazing to me. That’s why I love directors. I don’t want the director to have to work around me. I think it’s more fun for me to come in on their thing.
[why she married Cooke Maroney] He’s my best friend. I want to legally bind him to me forever. And fortunately the paperwork exists for such a thing. You find your favorite person on the planet and you’re like, ‘You can’t leave!’.
Turning 42 Today: Mila Kunis
No-strings sex is great in theory but falls short in execution. You can’t sustain a friends with benefits relationship for a long time. It’s inevitable it will either go one way or the other. I have plenty of males who are my friends… without the benefits. If you’re friends with someone, let’s just leave it at that. There needs to be nothing more.
I think than an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public’s eye than an actress. There will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be. An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she’s sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can’t get a job.
Comedy is very hard and I don’t know if it’s where my heart necessarily is but doing comedy is one of those things where if something is funny right now does not necessarily mean it’s going to sustain itself for a year in production and be funny when the movie comes out and that to me is the hardest thing. I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I’m super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.
Turning 70 Today: Steve Martin
I’ve written a lot about L.A., and I always describe it as beautiful. To me, human relationships can be sad, can be exhilarating – but it’s not a product of the city. And it takes different forms. Like, in New York, you’re always with people. You can’t go outdoors, you can’t go into the subway, you can’t go anywhere without running into people you don’t know. But in L.A., you really have to work a bit to be exposed. You have to be standing in a shop, you have to join a club, or join a community service thing, or go to a nightclub in order to meet people. Because there’s not the same transitory proximity to other people.
In Bowfinger (1999), there’s a scene where Eddie Murphy has to run across a freeway. The studio people all said, “We’ve got to cut this. It’s too expensive”. I said, “You can’t cut the funniest scene in the movie! We’re making a comedy – if you cut the funniest scene what are we making?” And it did turn out to be the funniest scene.
I always felt there was a deeper meaning to what I was doing than just being wild and crazy, something more philosophical. I had a view that there was something funny about trying to be funny. I needed a theory behind it in order to justify it at the time, but now I don’t. I see it for what it was. It was just fun, and it was stupid, and that’s why it was so successful.
When I first started, I really decided to be a comedian, so I underplayed the banjo. I didn’t want it to be a music show, I wanted it to be a comedy show. I subordinated the banjo and the music because I didn’t have anybody to play with. It was just me. And music always sounds better when you’ve got some other people.
Turning 59 Today: Halle Berry
I’ll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn’t fit in. Like I wasn’t as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone’s wife.
[on her evolving style and archiving her clothes] My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments. Someone just showed me a photo from the ’80s in which I was wearing a polka-dot and flower-print suit with puffy sleeves. At the time I thought I was stylin’! But no.
[on winning her own Oscar in 2002 and the lack of diversity at 2015 Academy Awards]It was one of my lowest professional moments. I sat there and I thought, wow, that moment really meant nothing. It meant nothing. I thought it meant something but now I think it meant nothing.
Turning 57 Today: Catherine Bell
I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I’ve had quite a few people actually say that they’re going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me… the character. I think that’s pretty cool!
I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.
We’re just into toys, whether it’s motorcycles or race cars or computers. I’ve got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I’ve got the world’s smallest phone. Maybe it’s just because I’m still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?
People think I’m crazy and reckless but I’m absolutely not… I’m soooo safe and soooo careful and I won’t do anything that feels like I could break something.
Turning 66 Today: Marcia Gay Harden
The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there’s going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there’s someone who can do it just as good or better. So, being an actor, there will be people who can do it just as good or better, but I’ll have my voice, and no one will have my voice.
People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works. After I won the Oscar for Pollock (2000), some newspaper printed, ‘She should get a million-dollar bump.’ My sisters would write me, ‘You’re gonna get this million-dollar bump!’ I thought, I’ll open the shutters to my hotel, and Scorsese will be on the lawn, and the lawn will be made out of emeralds. I never made less money than right after the Oscar.
[2012, on Pollock (2000)] That was exciting. That was exciting intellectually, educationally, emotionally, the craft of it. It was probably the most exciting thing I’ve ever done. It was full of museum visits and art study and painting classes. And emotional drainage. Working so closely with Ed Harris, who I just think is a genius. Long hours. Hard days. A full character. It was everything I dreamed of. And it was a tough shoot. You know, Ed wasn’t always easy [as a director], but he was always right. And he had the Pollock cap on as well. So sometimes you’d have Pollock directing you in a movie, which was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. And sometimes you would just have Ed Harris and all of his great brilliance and manliness coming from behind the camera. But I would follow Ed up any mountain trail at any time of day or night, knowing he’ll take care of me. He’s a man.
That was fantastic and [How to Get Away With Murder] is a different kind of show. It’s a whodunit, it’s a ploty, and twisty, kind of show and [Code Black] is different because it’s a formulaic show, It’s a joy. You don’t want to play the same thing your whole life so that’s the joy of acting.
Turning 32 Today: Freya Mavor
- The Shining (1980) completely scarred me, but in a weirdly good way… it got me questioning storytelling. I wanted to do what Jack Nicholson was doing, minus killing my entire family
I’ve always been so intrigued by language and how it completely changes you – because of cultural context, because of humor. Everything is so different.
Turning 63 Today: John Slattery
- My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.
- I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
- Let’s face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
- I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.
- I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.
Turning 61 Today: Debi Mazar
About Madonna: “She’s a dear old friend, so seeing her at the Evita (1996) premiere was a high point. She never looked more beautiful, glamorous and happy” (In Style magazine, Sept/2006).
My mom had me at 16, and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock–it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother’s house…I had a little attitude.
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