May 25: Notable Births, with Quotes
Explore memorable and revealing quotes from public figures, past and present, who were born on May 25.
Mike Myers, actor and comedian (May 25, 1963–present)
“Right now, in the global war between fascism and democracy, the first casualty of war is truth. Getting rid of local news is just the beginning of a slippery slope of all unfalsifiable fact.” —Mike Myers
Gardner, Chris. “Mike Myers on Beyonce, How ‘Wayne’s World’ Success ‘Rocked My World’ and Turning Down Lorne Michaels for ‘The Graduate’ Remake.” The Hollywood Reporter, May 5, 2022, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mike-myers-the-pentaverate-netflix-joke-interview-1235141439/.
“I love talented people. Love to give them the ball, get out of the way and let them run.” —Mike Myers
Gardner, Chris. “Mike Myers on Beyonce, How ‘Wayne’s World’ Success ‘Rocked My World’ and Turning Down Lorne Michaels for ‘The Graduate’ Remake.” The Hollywood Reporter, May 5, 2022, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mike-myers-the-pentaverate-netflix-joke-interview-1235141439/.
Frank Oz, puppeteer and filmmaker (May 25, 1944–present)
“I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me, and ‘Sesame Street’ hasn’t asked me for 10 years. They don’t want me because I won’t follow orders and I won’t do the kind of Muppets they believe in.” —Frank Oz
Parker, Ryan. “Frank Oz Says Disney Shunned Him for Muppets Projects Because He ‘Won’t Follow Orders.’” The Hollywood Reporter, August 30, 2021, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/frank-oz-shunned-by-disney-for-muppets-projects-1235005570/.
“There’s an inability for corporate America to understand the value of something they bought.” —Frank Oz
Parker, Ryan. “Frank Oz Says Disney Shunned Him for Muppets Projects Because He ‘Won’t Follow Orders.’” The Hollywood Reporter, August 30, 2021, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/frank-oz-shunned-by-disney-for-muppets-projects-1235005570/.
Ian McKellen, actor (May 25, 1939–present)
“I still don’t quite know how Gandalf came my way. I think because some of the actors who would have been offered it before me were rather put off by the idea of having to live in New Zealand for a year.” —Ian McKellen
Leedham, Robert. “Sir Ian McKellen: ‘I still don’t know quite how Gandalf came my way.’” GQ, March 20, 2021, https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/sir-ian-mckellen-interview-2021.
“I can’t count the number of people who said to me, ‘Your Gandalf was exactly as I’d always imagined him.’ Well, how could that be? Because my Gandalf to look at is nothing like the Gandalf described in the books.” —Ian McKellen
Leedham, Robert. “Sir Ian McKellen: ‘I still don’t know quite how Gandalf came my way.’” GQ, March 20, 2021, https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/sir-ian-mckellen-interview-2021.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet (May 25, 1803–April 27, 1882)
“Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—and our first thought, is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Essays, First Series.” American Transcendentalism Web, https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/selfreliance.html.
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Essays, First Series.” American Transcendentalism Web, https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/selfreliance.html.
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