There are three stages in an actor’s career: Who is John Amos? Get me John Amos. Get me a young John Amos.
I love my work and am grateful to God to have a profession that brings joy to so many.
They killed my character off and, as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again I got cast in a little program called Roots (1977) and, as they would say, the rest is history.
Category: happy birthday
Happy Birthday: Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992)
[on Orson Welles] When I talk with him, I feel like a tree that has been watered.
[on her preference for trousers] They are so comfortable. It takes too much time to be a well-dressed woman. I have watched others. Bags, shoes, hats. They must think of them all the time. I cannot waste that time.
Ernest Hemingway is the most positive life force I have ever encountered. I hate anything negative, and I hate waste. In Hemingway, nothing is wasted.
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