Lana Turner, 1942

Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney enjoying some ice cream

i just have to make it through the next few or tens or hundreds or thousands of weeks. until i'm dead

Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) dir. Mervyn LeRoy

Corey Haim in The Lost Boys (1987)

New York overwhelmed me. For the first few weeks I only strayed a couple of blocks from my hotel off Times Square. I would see three movies a day in an attempt to escape my loneliness and depression. I spent $150 of my limited funds just on seeing movies. - James Dean

Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (1931) dir. Clarence Brown

"It's sad, when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. But I couldn't allow them to believe that I would commit murder. They'll put him away now, as I should have years ago. He was always bad, and in the end he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man... as if I could do anything but just sit and stare, like one of his stuffed birds. They know I can't move a finger, and I won't. I'll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do... suspect me. They're probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching... they'll see. They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say, "Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."" Horror Character Appreciation - Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

on all levels except physical i am a spoiled house cat

“We all got totally soused somewhere on the West Side, and I remember Monty shouting to Liz, ‘You are the only woman I will ever love,’ and Elizabeth slumped in a chair staring at him with those magnificent violet eyes and crooning, ‘Baby, oh baby,’ over and over again.” -Ed Foote on his last memory of Montgomery Clift.