"Oh, if only we had written everything down daily we could bore the pants off everyone all the time with our exactitude." From his book, My Name Escapes Me, 1996 (p.115).
and...
"It was the Daily Express, I think, which carried a banner headline which read, 'Deborah Kerr fails for the third time.' A very English assessment. She hadn't failed in any real sense (she had several beautiful performances to her credit) - she just hadn't been handed a trophy. A race or a fight or a game can be won but to call something 'the best' in the arts is absurd. I wouldn't mind betting Dickens would fail to win the Booker Price (too readable and too funny) and Turner the Turner Prize and poor Keats wouldn't even be considred for any poetry prize. And so on. I suggest that the givers of awards to actors, writers and artists should choose half a dozen, almost at random, and say, 'These are people we wish to honour - equally.'
"Geoffrey Madan, in his Notebooks, quotes a Cannon Liddon as follows: 'The applause of all but very good men is no more than the pricise measure of their possible hostility." (p.16)
4 comments:
So British: wry, witty, self-deprecating, understated in an exaggerated way. Special tone.
Loved Deborah Kerr--she had that unique stylistic combination of compelling icy-cool sexiness. One of a kind.
Here is Helen Mirren complementing Guinness: "I am not a movie star and I never will be. It just happened that I had an incredibly intense and demanding year of work." Come on, Helen.
Artistic competition can be a killer. It builds frames and boxes in creativity.
I do think Helen might have a point on the movie star thing. Being an accomplished actor/artist is entirely worthwhile of drawing fans and adulation. Being a star is living the life of a star and being famous. These days the Paris Hilton's of the world, famous for being famous have drawn a line down the middle of fame and what it means to be a star.
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