Impresario

Sergei Diaghilev

Business

1872–1929

"Tchaikovsky thought of committing suicide for fear of being discovered as a homosexual, but today, if you are a composer and not homosexual, you might as well put a bullet through your head."

🇬🇧Ellen Terry

Entertainment

1847–1928

"Tall, slender, with beautiful flaxen hair, grey eyes, full red lips, finely framed features, graceful of carriage and movement, fresh and always young, Ellen Terry was as much an art object as an actress."

"Believe it or not, it’s easier for me nowadays to be outside this country than in this country, because when I go outside I’m in hotels with elevators and services of all kinds, and it’s not such a hardship."

🇬🇧George Frideric Handel

Music

Baroque music

1685–1759

"Whether I was in my body or out of my body I know not. God knows it!"

🇯🇵Ishirō Honda

Entertainment

1911–1993

"Ghidrah was merely meant to be a modern interpretation of the eight-headed snake of Japanese myth."