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Audrey Hepburn

An Academy Award and Tony Award winning film and stage actress, Audrey Hepburn was also a humanitarian. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her as the third greatest female star of all time. Hepburn was born a ‘blueblood’, a descendant of King Edward III of England and Mary Queen of Scots' consort, James Hepburn. This made Hepburn a distant cousin of Diana Princess of Wales, who thought of her as her favorite actress. She was also related to other notable distant cousins including Humphrey Bogart and Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

The rest of Hepburn's Bio Here

                                                                            

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

“As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself... All of which I’ve earned a living doing.”

“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”

“How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, ‘Good things aren’t supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.’  So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I’ve always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.”

“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”

   

“It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.”“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”

“I auditioned for this job for forty-five years and I finally got it. I always felt very powerless when I would see the terrible pictures on TV. But I was offered a wonderful opportunity to do something [and it] is a marvelous therapy to the anguish I feel.”

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can’t take it all in at once."

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”

“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others: for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

- Audrey Hepburn  (1929-1993)

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Peter Jackson

Born an only child in a small New Zealand town, Peter Jackson began his movie-making career when his parents bought him a super 8 mm movie camera when he was eight years old. The movies, which he made with his friends, were usually short, but they already had the trademark that would make Jackson famous: impressive special effects, made at a very low cost. After the success of his first movie in 1987 (Bad Taste), Jackson became recognized as a director of horror-movies.

Eventually, Jackson learned about author J. R. R. Tolkien, after watching the first film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, and only then did he decide to read Tolkien's books.

“I don’t quite know what an auteur is. I’ve never quite understood that term, because filmmaking is such a huge team effort, you - I mean, I regard myself as being sort of the final filter, so everything that ends up in the movie is there, because it’s something that I’d think was cool if I saw the film that somebody else had made. I’m very much trying to make the film that I’ve enjoyed, but I’m open to ideas, I need a huge team of people to help me, everybody contributes and I try to encourage people to contribute as much as possible.”

“New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.”

[On The Lord of the Rings:] “This is a giant undertaking, but I consider this a personal film. It’s my film of a lifetime. I read the book when I was 18 years old and thought then, ‘I can’t wait till the movie comes out.’ Twenty years later, no one had done it - so I got impatient.”

                     

On making The Lord of the Rings: “Looking back, I think we were a bit naive. At the beginning I don’t think anybody had any idea how difficult or complicated it would be. We somehow went into it thinking we could do it. And then we’ve stumbled along just taking each day at a time.”

“The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. The worst type is dictated by demographics or what is hip or what kids are into. Kong isn’t driven by that. No way would a studio think this is the year that people want to see a big gorilla movie. I’ve come to realize that, as much as anything, I am making this for the 9-year-old Peter.”

- Peter Jackson (1961- )

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Roy Rogers, Trigger and Dale Evens

Born Leonard Slye, Roy Rogers was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his wife Dale Evans (born Francis Smith), his golden palomino Trigger, and her trusty buckskin horse, Buttermilk, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show from 1951-1957.  Roy’s nickname was “King of the Cowboys” and Dale’s nickname was “Queen of the West.”  For many Americans (and non-Americans), Roy was the embodiment of the all-American hero and an idol for many children through his films and television show.

“It’s the way you ride the trail that counts.”

“Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.”

“Who cares about the clouds when we’re together?  Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.”

- Dale Evans  (1912-2001)

“I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.”

“I’m an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I’ve loved it so much - has always been hard for me.”

“Today they’re making pictures that I wouldn’t want Trigger to see.”

“You couldn’t beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.”

“Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.”

“When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.”

A quote about Roy’s horse Trigger, who the couple preserved through taxidermy. Trigger may still be seen in the Rogers and Evens museum in Branson, Missouri: 

“So many people loved him through the years, that I just didn’t have the heart to put him in the ground.”

- Roy Rogers  (1922-1998)

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Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters is a TV broadcaster who is best known for interviewing world leaders and celebrities, as well as co-hosting and co-creating daytime TV’s The View. Starting in broadcast journalism in the 1970’s, Walters became a pioneer in a field dominated by men. She had a long run on ABC's 20/20 (1979-2004), and a popular series, The Barbara Walters Specials, in which she interviewed personalities from politics and world news, including Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Fidel Castro, the Dalai Lama, Boris Yeltsin, Margaret Thatcher, Václav Havel, Muammar al-Gaddafi, the Shah of Iran, and Hugo Chavez to name a few. Currently, Walters holds the notable distinction of having interviewed every U.S. President since Richard Nixon. Her list of celebrity guests includes Monica Lewinsky, Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, Sophia Loren, Richard Pryor, and Princess Diana, among many others.

“To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.”

“Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.”

                             

“Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.”

“I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.”

“Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do”

“If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.”

- Barbara Walters  (1929- )

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Kathy Griffin is an Emmy Award-winning stand-up comedienne, producer, actress, and a self-proclaimed "D-list celebrity." She has also been a voice actress, a red carpet commentator, and a guest host on ‘The View’. She also appeared in an Eminem music video. She has honed a comedy and television career that pokes fun at her own relatively modest place in the Hollywood hierarchy as well as Scientology, plastic surgery and snooty attitudes.  Among Griffin's staples are Clay Aiken, Barbara Walters, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Gwyneth Paltrow, Star Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan.

“I work constantly, I’m really driven by money, I’m really interested in money. It is not like I am rich by other star’s standards, but I constantly strive for more.”

(About her D-List status) “I’m open about it. You have the A-listwith Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman. The B-list is, like, Ray Romano and Debra Messing. For a while I hovered on the C-List. But then I did ‘Celebrity Mole,’ and I jumped right to D. Once you do ‘Celebrity Mole, there’s no coming back. The D-list is people who have shows on the Animal Planet.”

“The more I’m in an actual war zone, the more it’s just ugly. It’s not cool, it’s not a Toby Keith song, it’s not opening up a can of whoop-ass. It’s just horrible.”

“My niece and nephew are here for the weekend. It’s time to act like I like kids.”

- Kathy Griffin  (1960- )

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The daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Spellbound), and of movie director Roberto Rossellini (Stromboli, Voyage in Italy), Isabella Rossellini began her first career as a model, where she achieved great modeling success as the face of Lancôme but the company ended the arrangement in 1996, fearing that Rossellini was too old to be seen as attractive.

She took on her first acting roles in Italian productions in the mid 1970s and much later moved on to appear in White Nights’(1985) with dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, then in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart with Nicholas Cage. Since then, she has had a varied acting career; most recently, she's been cast as Katya Derevko, Sydney Bristow’s (played by Jennifer Garner) aunt on television’s Alias.
 
She has been linked romantically to Baryshnikov and Lynch, as well as actor Gary Oldman. She is divorced from director Martin Scorsese. Outside of acting, modeling, and cosmetics, Rossellini is involved in conservation efforts. She is a board member of the Wildlife Conservation Network. Rossellini also trains guide dogs for the blind.

“I like fashion and photography and emotions and creating.”

“Yes, there’s ageism in modeling and acting. I’m dying to see Diane Keaton or Sissy Spacek more, and we don’t see them as much. The story you hear over and over is about seducing a man and getting married, but women do much more than that. Maybe it will help having more women as directors, heads of cosmetic companies or heads of studios. It’s the whole system.”

                    

“If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.”

“Anything you enjoy that much, you hope it will last. But I had a very long career. Now that seems to be rare. It’s even true of actors. The celebrity culture has collapsed your moment of success to four, five, six years - then you’re passé.”

“A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.”

- Isabella Rossellini  (1951- )

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The much-loved monarch of the British Isles (and 16 independent states and their overseas territories), Elizabeth II became Queen of England in 1952 when her father, George VI, died.

Elizabeth was thirteen years old when World War II broke out, and she and her younger sister, Princess Margaret were evacuated to Windsor Castle. There was some suggestion that the two princesses be evacuated to Canada. To this proposal their mother made the famous reply: “The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave.”  The Queen has carried on this stoic and some would say selfless love of country and duty her entire reign.

Recent polls showed that most British citizens wish for the Queen to remain on the throne until her death – as the Queen herself has become an institution.

Her main leisure interests include horseracing and dogs, especially her Pembroke Welsh Corgis.

British actress Helen Mirren, who won an Academy Award in 2007 for portraying the Elizabeth II in the acclaimed film, “The Queen”, has said, “Elizabeth Windsor at the age of 25 walked into literally the role of a lifetime. I honestly feel this award belongs to her, because I think you fell in love with her, not with me. I think she’s a person who is genuine, she refuses to be fake.”

“The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”

“We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.”

“I have to be seen to be believed.”

“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”

Speaking to rock legend Eric Clapton about his guitar playing at a Buckingham Palace reception for the British music industry in March of 2005 she inquired:

“Have you been playing a long time?”
 
And then to Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, who wrote the famous song ‘Stairway to heaven’, she asked:

“Are you a guitarist too?”  

- Elizabeth II  (1926- )

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Rupert Murdoch, (1931) is a well-known global media executive. In recent years he has been investing in satellite television, film and the Internet.

“The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, ‘It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg’, and then someone else said ‘No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing’."

- Rupert Murdoch, (1931- )

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David Brinkley (1920-2003) was a popular television newscaster. President George W. Bush called him the “elder statesman of broadcast journalism” in 1992.

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

- David Brinkley (1920-2003)

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Ingred Bergman

Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden and had a childhood filled with the tradgedy of her mother’s death when she was 3 and her father’s death at her age of 13. At age 17 she began acting in theater in Stockholm with the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm and soon after began working for a Swedish film studio.  Her American carreer began when around1939 when she was hired by a Hollywood studio to do a remake of her1936 Swedish language film, Intermezzo.

More of Bergman's Biography & Quotes Here

“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”

- Ingrid Bergman  (1915-1982)

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”I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn’t choose acting. It chose me.”

- Ingrid Bergman  (1915-1982)

“I hope I never get so old I get religious.”

- Ingrid Bergman  (1915-1982)

“You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”

- Ingrid Bergman  (1915-1982)

 

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

- Ingrid Bergman  (1915-1982)

 

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

- Ingrid Bergman  (1915-1982)

 

"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”

- Ingrid Bergman  (1915-1982)

 

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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

- Ingrid Bergman  (1915-1982)

"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”

 

- Ingrid Bergman  (1915-1982)

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