Whenever I felt they were being mean to me at home, I’d go climb into the hamper and pull the lid over me. I planned to die in there, and then they’d be sorry. They’d open the hamper and I’d be down there dead. But it takes strength of character to stay in a hamper and expire; I’d get to wishing I had some fudge. When I was four years old I ran away from home - or at least I walked away. A neighbor who saw me stopped short and cried, “Rosalind, what are you doing here?” “My name is not Rosalind,” I said. “I’m from out of town.”
On this day in 1916, a screen legend was born…celebrating the centenary of one of the Silver Screen’s most talented of leading men, Mr. Kirk Douglas!(b. Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916)
“All children are natural actors, and I’m still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.”
