Showing posts with label the Ragman´s Son. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Ragman´s Son. Show all posts

Sunday, February 9, 2020

No reason to be hungry poor


Kirk Douglas

En esta entrevista Kirk Douglas dice algo muy cierto: “No hay razón para que nadie en el mundo sea pobre” (¡atención políticos!). Para saber: The Ragman's Son y en vocabulario: corny, smothering, mean mood, flipped

Kirk Douglas 1979 Full Interview
Kirk Douglas at an interview – 1979 – he speaks about being shy and acting – his poverty as a child

—… I really enjoy your interview with Dick Emery. He said something that I think every performer, actor would agree when he said “every actor, performer hides behind a character” but it doesn´t have to be an out character, every character that you play in a movie, on a stage, the actor hides behind. And I´ve always had the theory that I think that most actors are really shy people, myself included, and I think that the most difficult thing is what I’m doing now, sort of be yourself. It´s much easier to hide behind a character.
—Looking at your life story it occurs to me that no Hollywood scriptwriter could ever invented it. Have you ever thought of making a film about your life?