EXCERPTS FROM
DISCLOSURES: TEN FAMOUS MEN REVEALED
From Chapter 2:
“When I was in the third grade, I had a fantasy. I thought I was Superboy. I wore red leotards and red shorts under my school clothes, and a barber’s cape from my father’s shop. I painted an ‘S’ on my sweatshirt. I was an emaciated kid. I had skinny legs. My friend Jimmy, I showed him my costume in the men’s room – told him I was Superboy. So he told the teacher, and the teacher made me strip (to the costume) in front of the whole class. And there I was in my Superboy clothes, everyone laughing. It was cruel.”
-Sylvester Stallone
From Chapter 3:
“On the field, I have to be cocky. I’m self-assured. I think I can go out on the field and strike anybody out. I study each guy in the lineup. I think of all the possibilities. I think of pitches. If I didn’t feel that way, I wouldn’t be in the big leagues,” he told me. “Sure, the money is there for me. But being a winner has to do with self-pride,” he said.
-Roger Clemens
From Chapter 4:
“When I was nineteen, I wrote a forty-page thesis, a letter to myself, about what I’d like to be when I was sixty. I thought I had destroyed it. But not long ago, I found that paper among my possessions. I read it. And everything has come true. I had described the kind of house I would like to live in. The country. The types of friends I’d choose. I was amazed. I was actually living the life I had prognosticated for myself. It was as if I had a self vision, and God had made me into that person exactly.”
-Anthony Quinn
From Chapter 5:
“I was a stutterer. I’ve learned how to function in spite of it. But once a stutterer, always a stutterer. I’m a stutterer for life. I stutter under stress. When I’m not under stress, I choose words I know I can say.”
-James Earl Jones
From Chapter 10:
“Early on, I knew that laughter felt good. Now I know the truth is that while you’re laughing, you’re thinking positively. My father always told me: ‘Do what you feel you really want to do.’ He died when I was fifteen. Suddenly, he wasn’t there. But, in my mind, I know he would be happy for me today, just as he was when I was a kid, acting up.”
-Billy Crystal