August 24: Notable Births, with Quotes
Explore memorable and revealing quotes from public figures, past and present, who were born on August 24.
Rupert Grint, actor (August 24, 1988–present)
“I struggle with that, being a dad. Had a bit of an identity crisis. I don’t know, do I change the way I dress now?” —Rupert Grint
Kirkland, Justin. “Rupert Grint Is Facing His Fears.” Esquire, March 19, 2021, https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a35875730/rupert-grint-servant-season-2-interview/
“Sleeping, in general, for me, is something I’ve really struggled with. I think as a kid, people always said, ‘They died in their sleep,’ so I always thought sleep was a really dangerous, dangerous thing.” —Rupert Grint
Kirkland, Justin. “Rupert Grint Is Facing His Fears.” Esquire, March 19, 2021, https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a35875730/rupert-grint-servant-season-2-interview/
Marlee Matlin, actor (August 24, 1965–present)
“The entertainment industry doesn’t necessarily make themselves available to everyone.” —Marlee Matlin
Schepp, Calie. “CODA’s Marlee Matlin discusses the future for deaf actors in Hollywood.” Entertainment Weekly, March 22, 2022, https://ew.com/movies/coda-marlee-matlin-game-changers/
“I like to play around with people who don’t know me. Often I’m talking to people through my speaker phone, and after 10 minutes or so they say, ‘Wait a minute, Marlee, how can you hear me?’ They forget I have an interpreter there who is signing to me as they talk. So I say, ‘You know what? I can hear on Wednesdays.’” —Marlee Matlin
ABILITY Magazine. “Marlee Matlin story.” ABILITY Magazine, https://www.abilitymagazine.com/past/Marleem/Marleem.html
Cal Ripken, baseball player (August 24, 1960–present)
“Predictions are not a sure-fire thing. There are a lot of so-called baseball experts that have trouble picking the playoff teams and I happen to be one of those, too.” —Cal Ripken
Golokhov, Dave. “Cal Ripken Jr. Interview.” Askmen, https://in.askmen.com/sports-commentary/1091720/article/cal-ripken-jr-interview
“I don’t think any players think about their legacy while they’re playing. Legacy is a judgment after it’s all said and done, so it’s a collection of all of your actions. How you do it, when you do it, and so everything is part of the record. I don’t think players get caught up in how you’re going to be thought of or how you’re going to be perceived. All you can do is just go out there and play, and be yourself.” —Cal Ripken
Golokhov, Dave. “Cal Ripken Jr. Interview.” Askmen, https://in.askmen.com/sports-commentary/1091720/article/cal-ripken-jr-interview
Jorge Luis Borges, writer (August 24, 1899–June 14, 1986)
“The last thing I saw was yellow, the yellow color, because the first two colors to disappear were black and red. People think that blind people live in the dark. No. The first color they lose is black. I’m yearning for the black and red. I wish I could see scarlet. And now I live in the center of a kind of luminous grayish or bluish or greenish mist. But always luminous.” —Jorge Luis Borges
Childress, Mark and McNair, Charles. “‘I’ll Be in Another World’: A Rediscovered Interview with Jorge Luis Borges.” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 23, 2021, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ill-be-in-another-world-a-rediscovered-interview-with-jorge-luis-borges/
“At home, I haven’t got a single book of mine, nor a single book written about me. I hardly know what I have written. I read other and better writers. If I reread my own stuff, I might be disheartened. I want to go on writing. I don’t want to be discouraged.” —Jorge Luis Borges
Childress, Mark and McNair, Charles. “‘I’ll Be in Another World’: A Rediscovered Interview with Jorge Luis Borges.” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 23, 2021, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ill-be-in-another-world-a-rediscovered-interview-with-jorge-luis-borges/
William Wilberforce, politician and abolitionist (August 24, 1759–July 29, 1833)
“I determine to forget all my other fears, and I march forward with a firmer step in the full assurance that my cause will bear me out, and that I shall be able to justify upon the clearest principles, every resolution in my hand, the avowed end of which is, the total abolition of the slave trade.” —William Wilberforce
Wilberforce, William. “‘Abolition Speech’ by William Wilberforce.” Art of Manliness, May 12, 1789, https://www.artofmanliness.com/abolition-speech-by-william-wilberforce/
“I verily believe therefore, if the wretchedness of any one of the many hundred Negroes stowed in each ship could be brought before their view, and remain within the sight of the African Merchant, that there is no one among them whose heart would bear it. Let any one imagine to himself 6 or 700 of these wretches chained two and two, surrounded with every object that is nauseous and disgusting, diseased, and struggling under every kind of wretchedness! How can we bear to think of such a scene as this?” —William Wilberforce
Wilberforce, William. “‘Abolition Speech’ by William Wilberforce.” Art of Manliness, May 12, 1789, https://www.artofmanliness.com/abolition-speech-by-william-wilberforce/
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