taste

"I don't like plays after the third performance. On Broadway it goes on for 8 times a week for months and I get bored regurgitating the same lines over and over. Movies are better. One take and done."
- Sir Anthony Hopkins [born 1937]

last in his West Point class

"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
- Ulysses S. Grant [1822-1885]

routine

Richard Burton drank four bottles of vodka daily.