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.

Happy Birthday: Lily Cole

There is a degree of role-playing in modeling, for sure, and you’re also in a high-profile job – there are lots of similarities for sure. But when I’m acting, I’ve got to try and be present, and I’ve got to be emotionally committed to a character, both physically and intellectually.

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it’s paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.