Persis Khambatta Quotes

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

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• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

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• Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

  

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• I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

  

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• Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

  

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• It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

  

  Laura Mvula
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• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

  

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• Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

  

  Caleb Cushing
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• If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

  

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• I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

  

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• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

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• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

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• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

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• I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

  

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• You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

  

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• As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.

  

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• If you're offended, it's your problem.

  

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• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  

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• You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and 'The Passion' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it.

  

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• I never wanted to be a movie star.

  

  Radha Mitchell
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• When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.

  

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• I was originally set to star in 'The Bourne Identity,' but I found it too difficult to even pretend to forget who I was.

  

  Zach Braff
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• After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

  

  Persis Khambatta
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