March 14: Notable Births and Deaths, with Quotes

Let’s explore notable birth and death anniversaries for March 14.

Billy Crystal, comedian and actor (March 14, 1948–present)

“Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her, because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.” —Billy Crystal
Winfrey, Oprah. “Oprah Talks to Billy Crystal.” Oprah.com, June 2004, https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/oprah-interviews-billy-crystal/all.

“‘You look mahvelous!’ hooked in right away, and it wasn’t even scripted.” —Billy Crystal
Winfrey, Oprah. “Oprah Talks to Billy Crystal.” Oprah.com, June 2004, https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/oprah-interviews-billy-crystal/all.

Quincy Jones, producer and musician (March 14, 1933–present)

“I never been lonely or bored in my life, never, and I guess that comes from not having a mother. My mother was put in Manteno State Hospital with dementia praecox when I was 7 years old, so I never had a mother, and I’ve been trying to find one since then.” —Quincy Jones
Abramovitch, Seth. “THR Icon: Quincy Jones Reflects on Career, Michael Jackson and Why He Wouldn’t Work With Elvis.” The Hollywood Reporter, May 20, 2021, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/quincy-jones-michael-jackson-elvis-presley-1234955138/.

“I learned very early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, wants us to listen twice as much as we talk, or he would have given us two mouths, not two ears. There’s 12 notes that have been floating around the universe for 720 years now, and we have those same 12 notes that Brahms, Bach and Beethoven had.” —Quincy Jones
Abramovitch, Seth. “THR Icon: Quincy Jones Reflects on Career, Michael Jackson and Why He Wouldn’t Work With Elvis.” The Hollywood Reporter, May 20, 2021, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/quincy-jones-michael-jackson-elvis-presley-1234955138/.

“Right brain is feeling, right? Emotion. We’ve got to learn everything about music because it is the most fantastic, magical gift. People cannot live without music or water, you know that?” —Quincy Jones
Abramovitch, Seth. “THR Icon: Quincy Jones Reflects on Career, Michael Jackson and Why He Wouldn’t Work With Elvis.” The Hollywood Reporter, May 20, 2021, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/quincy-jones-michael-jackson-elvis-presley-1234955138/.

Michael Caine, actor (March 14, 1933–present)

“I’ve done 150 movies. I think I’ve done enough.” —Michael Caine
Brooks, Xan. “Michael Caine on Brexit, Boris Johnson and big breaks: ‘I’ve done 150 movies. I think that’s enough.’” The Guardian, October 18, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/18/michael-caine-on-brexit-boris-johnson-and-big-breaks-ive-done-150-movies-i-think-thats-enough.

“I can’t walk and I can’t stand for very long and now I don’t know whether my bloody memory’s going. And I’ve worked with people like that. I worked with one actor who had all his bloody lines written on the wall because he never remembered any of them. And there are others who wear earphones and have the assistant director read the next line to them.” —Michael Caine
Brooks, Xan. “Michael Caine on Brexit, Boris Johnson and big breaks: ‘I’ve done 150 movies. I think that’s enough.’” The Guardian, October 18, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/18/michael-caine-on-brexit-boris-johnson-and-big-breaks-ive-done-150-movies-i-think-thats-enough.

“I’ve always lived to the highest limit that my money would allow. I mean, I’m not extravagant. I’m not silly. I’m not out buying caviar every day.” —Michael Caine
Brooks, Xan. “Michael Caine on Brexit, Boris Johnson and big breaks: ‘I’ve done 150 movies. I think that’s enough.’” The Guardian, October 18, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/18/michael-caine-on-brexit-boris-johnson-and-big-breaks-ive-done-150-movies-i-think-thats-enough.

Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist and author (January 8, 1942–March 14, 2018)

“God may exist, but science can explain the universe without a need for a creator.” —Stephen Hawking
King, Larry. “Interview With Stephen Hawking”: Science and Religion.” CNN, September 10, 2010, http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/10/lkl.01.html.

“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.” —Stephen Hawking
King, Larry. “Interview With Stephen Hawking”: Science and Religion.” CNN, September 10, 2010, http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/10/lkl.01.html.

“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.” —Stephen Hawking
King, Larry. “Interview With Stephen Hawking”: Science and Religion.” CNN, September 10, 2010, http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/10/lkl.01.html.

Karl Marx, economist, philosopher, and author (May 5, 1818–March 14, 1883)

“The subject of my professional studies was jurisprudence, which I pursued, however, in connection with and as secondary to the studies of philosophy and history.” —Karl Marx
Marx, Karl. “The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Contribution to The Critique Of The Political Economy, by Karl Marx and N. I. Stone.” Project Gutenberg, July 26, 2014, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46423/46423-h/46423-h.htm.

“No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces, for which there is room in it, have been developed; and new higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society.” —Karl Marx
Marx, Karl. “The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Contribution to The Critique Of The Political Economy, by Karl Marx and N. I. Stone.” Project Gutenberg, July 26, 2014, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46423/46423-h/46423-h.htm.

“At first sight the wealth of society under the capitalist system presents itself as an immense accumulation of commodities, its unit being a single commodity. But every commodity has a twofold aspect, that of use value and exchange value.” —Karl Marx
Marx, Karl. “The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Contribution to The Critique Of The Political Economy, by Karl Marx and N. I. Stone.” Project Gutenberg, July 26, 2014, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46423/46423-h/46423-h.htm.

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