Anthony Perkins - Moonlight Swim
Before starring as Norman Bates in Psycho, Anthony Perkins recorded three pop albums as “Tony Perkins”. Moonlight Swim was his biggest hit.
Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Anthony Perkins in The Trial (1962, dir. Orson Welles)
Psycho (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
“She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you?”
Anthony Perkins in The Trial (1962, dir. Orson Welles)
Anthony Perkins in The Trial (1962, dir. Orson Welles)
“Someone must have been slandering Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.”
-Franz Kafka, The Trial
Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, and Anthony Perkins on the set of The Trial (1962, dir. Orson Welles)
Photos by Nicolas Tikhomiroff.
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Anthony Perkins in publicity still for The Trial (1962, dir. Orson Welles)
“My great problem is that I’ve always felt -and especially since I’ve become a so-called personality, a celebrity, & so forth -that it was all a very exposable myth that I was somebody. I’ve felt that this was an absurd dishonesty and that if I were close to people, it would be instantly evident & they would say, ‘Well, gee, he’s nothing at all. What do we want to see him for?’ If I can talk to someone for just five minutes, five vital minutes, I feel I can carry on the myth of being a full person, but any longer and I would be shown up as an empty, worthless nothing… all colorless and shrinking, invisible.
Ironically, I spent a couple of years playing parts in which I was supposed to be a decisive person, but all the while I was in a torment over this feeling of being a total cipher. It just about paralyzed me.”
-Anthony Perkins, quoted in 1960 Sat. Evening Post interview (via)
Anthony Perkins in The Trial (1962, dir. Orson Welles) (via)
