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Inventor of Cinema10 April 1954: Auguste Lumière: "My
film is over". |
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Charlie Chaplin, 25 December 1977
: "Why not? It belongs to him" - in reply to the priest at his deathbed who
said, "May the Lord have mercy on your soul". |
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American actor John Barrymore 29 May 1942:
"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a
conventional thing to happen to him". |
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Marilyn Monroe to her doctor
5 August 1962: "Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and
say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy". |
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American comedian and actor Groucho Marx
19 August 1977: "Die, my dear? Why,
that's the last thing I'll do!" |
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American actor, screenwriter, director and
producer Douglas Fairbanks
12 December 1939: "I've never
felt better". |
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American actor Humphrey Bogart
14 January 1957: "I should never have
switched from Scotch to Martinis" |
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English theatre and film actor Edmund Gwenn,
6 September 1959: "Yes, it's tough, but
not as tough as doing comedy. When asked if he thought dying was
tough".
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English actor and director Laurence Olivier
11 July 1989: "This isn't Hamlet, you know. It's not meant to
go into the bloody ear" to his nurse, who spilt water over him while
trying to moisten his lips. In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, the title
character's father is killed when poison is dripped into his ear
while asleep. |
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Japanese American actor Jack Soo
11 January 1979: "It must have been the
coffee". This was a reference to the running gag of his character
Nick Yemana from the TV show Barney Miller having the reputation for
making horrible coffee. |
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Italian actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon Rudolph Valentino
23 August 1926: "Don't pull down the blinds. I
feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!"
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American comedian and actor W.C. Fields
25 December 1946 : "Goddamn the whole friggin'
world but you, Carlotta! "Carlotta" was Carlotta Monti, actress and Fields'
mistress". |
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Dutch Film director Theo van Gogh
2 November 2004: "Mercy, mercy! Can't we talk
this over?". Theo said this to his murderer Islamic extremist Mohammed
Bouyeri, just before the latter stabbed him in his throat. Van Gogh was well
know for his Criticism of Islam. |
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American theatre actor Del Close 4 March
1999: "Thank God. I'm tired of being the funniest person in the
room". |
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American actress Joan Crawford 10 May 1977:
"Damn it... Don't you dare ask God to help me" to her housekeeper who had
begun to pray aloud. |
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Legendary Japanese cartoonist and animator Osamu Tezuka
9 February 1989: "I'm begging you, let me
work!". He spoke these words as a nurse took his drawing board from his
hospital bed and encouraged him to get some sleep.
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American theatrical producer Charles Frohman
7 May 1915: "Why fear death ? It is the most beautiful adventure in
life." Said before going down with the liner Lusitania, alluding to "To die
will be an awfully big adventure" from Barrie's Peter Pan, which Frohman had
produced.
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English playwright, director and actor Noel Coward
26 March 1973 : "Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow". |
