[February, 1942, accepting his Academy Award for Sergeant York (1941) from James Stewart] "It was Sergeant Alvin York [Alvin C. York] who won this award. Because to the best of my ability, I tried to be Sergeant York. Shucks, I`ve been in the business 16 ...
Gary Cooper
[statement made shortly before his death, on why he was private about his battle with AIDS] I chose not to go public about this because, to misquote Casablanca (1942), I`m not much at being noble, but it doesn`t take much to see that the problems of one o...
Anthony Perkins
In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca (1942)], they weren`t too pleased with it. They didn`t like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago, it was brought in and opened in f...
Ingrid Bergman
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don`t teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
Graham Nash
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
Aimee Ehlenfeldt
Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
Jack Adams
When I look at myself, I am so beautiful I scream with joy! (on viewing Arabian Nights (1942)).
Maria Montez
