Happy Birthday: Dabney Coleman

[on acting in lesser quality films and TV shows] Those things are just bad memories. They have no air from the day you walk onto the set from the day you leave. There’s no oxygen on the set. You can’t breathe. It’s just oppressive. It hurts to do things like that. And you do things like that to stay alive. To make a living.

Happy Birthday: Ray Milland (1905–1986)

[on Ronald Reagan] I attended a meeting of the full membership of the Screen Actors Guild held in the Hollywood Legion Stadium, and up in the ring presiding over it was the best president the Guild ever had, Ronald Reagan, now Governor of California. He had a tough job directing the traffic that night, what with calls to the barricades by a lot of coffeehouse characters, wailing about the violence outside studio gates. Hell, the only violent activity I ever saw outside a studio gate was over at Republic one morning when Vera Ralston lost her skate key.