Born December 31st

Thursday, December 31, 1959 - Val Kilmer (actor, 'Iceman' Kazansky in Top Gun)

"Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things."

Friday, December 31, 1948 - Joe Dallesandro (underground actor, hustler in Flesh)

"I'm sick of reporters that come to meet me and know absolutely nothing about me and want me to tell them the same old inane stories that have been asked of me for 30 years. It's time to move on and say hey, I've been asked this question a hundred times, and I give the same answer over and over again. Michael was the first one who didn't come down and ask what it was like working with Edie Sedgwick. He knew all those answers, and we didn't have to do that again."

Friday, December 31, 1948 - Donna Summer (disco star, singer, Hot Stuff)

"Oh, I love it! It's great I'm the queen. Look, it's nice to be the queen of something, darling."

Friday, December 31, 1943 - John Denver (singer, songwriter, Rocky Mountain High)

"I would like whatever it is that I'm doing -- everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me -- [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art."

Friday, December 31, 1937 - Anthony Hopkins (actor, Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs)

"I've got to get out because I think acting is very bad for one's mental health. I can't take it any more. This has got to stop. I have wasted my life."

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