June 2: Notable Births, with Quotes
Explore memorable and revealing quotes from public figures, past and present, who were born on June 2.
Dana Carvey, comedian and actor (June 2, 1955–present)
“SNL is Lorne Michaels, Lorne Michaels is SNL. They’re one and the same. And when you’re there, he’s your boss, and then as you leave, later on, you develop a lot, lot more affection for him and an understanding of his greatness to balance all these egos, all the politics with the network, picking the show, and he makes it look easy.” —Dana Carvey
Sarachan, Risa. “David Spade And Dana Carvey Bring Listeners Inside All Things ‘Saturday Night Live’ With ‘Fly On The Wall’ Podcast.” Forbes, February 21, 2022, https://www.forbes.com/sites/risasarachan/2022/02/21/david-spade-and-dana-carvey-bring-listeners-inside-all-things-saturday-night-live-with-fly-on-the-wall-podcast/?sh=5c3da3354c1e.
“I love Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush, I thought he nailed that and was hysterical. I love Darrell Hammond’s Dick Cheney and Al Gore. And Bill Clinton, he was kind of the best on that. Tina Fey and Sarah Palin was sort of an intense, perfect connection.” —Dana Carvey
Sarachan, Risa. “David Spade And Dana Carvey Bring Listeners Inside All Things ‘Saturday Night Live’ With ‘Fly On The Wall’ Podcast.” Forbes, February 21, 2022, https://www.forbes.com/sites/risasarachan/2022/02/21/david-spade-and-dana-carvey-bring-listeners-inside-all-things-saturday-night-live-with-fly-on-the-wall-podcast/?sh=5c3da3354c1e.
Jerry Mathers, actor (June 2, 1948–present)
“In 1957, I went on an interview, they had about 2,000 kids, I believe, but it was in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and it wasn’t just for the part of the Beaver, it was Beaver and Wally and Eddie, so the whole cast.” —Jerry Mathers
Frye, Rachel. “WTMJ Conversations: Jerry Mathers.” WTMJ, September 27, 2021, https://wtmj.com/wtmj-conversations/2021/09/27/wtmj-conversations-jerry-mathers/.
“Hugh Beaumont was a really nice person. A lot of people don’t know this, he was a Methodist minister and he had started becoming an actor just so he could preach to this very poor congregation in downtown Los Angeles, and he was just a wonderful man.” —Jerry Mathers
Frye, Rachel. “WTMJ Conversations: Jerry Mathers.” WTMJ, September 27, 2021, https://wtmj.com/wtmj-conversations/2021/09/27/wtmj-conversations-jerry-mathers/.
Marvin Hamlisch, composer (June 2, 1944–August 6, 2012)
“What I loved about ‘West Side Story’ was… it was very daring. It was a very daring show and it was just wonderful to have something like that on Broadway.” —Marvin Hamlisch
Diamond, Robert. “2010 Flashback – InDepth InterView: Marvin Hamlisch.” Broadway World, August 7, 2012, https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/2010-Flashback-InDepth-InterView-Marvin-Hamlisch-20120807.
“I’m not big on revivals at all. In fact, I have a real problem with revivals because I think they’ve taken away a lot of the real joy out of Broadway. I mean, Broadway to me was always the place where it was always ‘new.’ It was all about new.” —Marvin Hamlisch
Diamond, Robert. “2010 Flashback – InDepth InterView: Marvin Hamlisch.” Broadway World, August 7, 2012, https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/2010-Flashback-InDepth-InterView-Marvin-Hamlisch-20120807.
Charlie Watts, musician (June 2, 1941–August 24, 2021)
“There’s a lot more interesting people around than rock’n’roll bands. There’s this huge cult grown up around rock’n’roll, but I never saw it myself. I don’t mean I never saw it going on, I mean I just didn’t ‘get’ it.” —Charlie Watts
Ellen, Barbara. “Charlie Watts: ‘All the musicians I love look beautiful.’” The Guardian, July 8, 2000, https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2000/jul/09/features.magazine27.
“All the musicians I love look beautiful. The way a man looks as he plays, his style, is very important to me.” —Charlie Watts
Ellen, Barbara. “Charlie Watts: ‘All the musicians I love look beautiful.’” The Guardian, July 8, 2000, https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2000/jul/09/features.magazine27.
Thomas Hardy, novelist (June 2, 1840–January 11, 1928)
“People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.” —Thomas Hardy
Hardy, Thomas. “The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jude the Obscure.” Project Gutenberg, June 4, 2020, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/153/153-h/153-h.htm.
“Sometimes a woman’s love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn’t love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.” —Thomas Hardy
Hardy, Thomas. “The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jude the Obscure.” Project Gutenberg, June 4, 2020, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/153/153-h/153-h.htm.
Marquis de Sade, writer and politician (June 2, 1740–December 2, 1814)
“You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue’s absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugenie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbicile parents.” —Marquis de Sade
Sade, Marquis de. “Philosophy in the Bedroom.” Grove Press, 1971.
“Is man master of his penchants? One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.” —Marquis de Sade
Sade, Marquis de. “Philosophy in the Bedroom.” Grove Press, 1971.
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