Friday, August 1

Cyd Charisse

2008 mixed media
I never thought of myself as a ‘Star’, not even after I made my biggest films. Perhaps that’s because I am basically an introvert. I knew that I loved working, performing. What the public made of it was their business. I hoped that they liked me and admired my work, of course, but that pedestal they stuck me up on was insignificant in my view.

- Cyd Charisse (1922-2008)
What pedestals have we been placed upon? By whom?