Quotes by Persis Khambatta - Page 1

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
Persis Khambatta / Actress
Genes
Genius
Gene
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Besides, a bald cap would have never looked real.
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Bald
Besides
Cap
Looked
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Having shaved my head for the role put a spotlight on me.
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Spotlight
Role
Shaved
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If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.
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Exotic
Roles
Terrorist
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I mean, every Star Trek episode you saw was just phenomenal.
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Mean
Phenomenal
Saws
Stars
Episode
Star Trek
Trek
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I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.
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Beautiful
Happened
Memories
Life Beautiful My Life
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I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.
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Feelings
Great Feelings
Stars
Great Feeling
Star Trek
Trek
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If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes.
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Healthy
Messages
Chain
Processes
Send
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I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.
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Paint
Butterflies
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I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.
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America
Fans
Hollywood
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One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.
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Careers
Concerned
Knows
One Thing
Good Me Know
Confident
Career
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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.
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Agency
Directors
Producers
Stars
Agencies
Star Trek
Trek
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I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.
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Ambition
Sake
Love Money Doing
Unfulfilled
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You see, being bald and wearing that gray starship uniform, I would have looked like a boy. I wanted to look like a sexy female.
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Boys
Female
Sexy
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A lot of people remember me from Star Trek. They've all forgotten all the other things I've done. I was so identified with the role.
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People
Roles
Stars
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Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.
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Believe
Negative Energy
Philosophical
Spiritual
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It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter.
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Latter
Statistics
Verify
Eager
Guild
Tougher
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Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.
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Bigs
Careers
Hollywood
Failed
Mention
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I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.
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Amusing
Gone
People
Stars
Convention
Dressed
Star Trek
Trek
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Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.
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Fear
Awe
Creative People
Insecure
People
Always Better People
Better People Feel
Better Actor
Better Always People
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Every star, whether it's Harrison Ford or Robert De Niro, is remembered by one film. Persis is a star in the sky - how can a star be forgotten when all you have to do is look up and see her?
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De Niro
Forgotten
Remembered
Sky
Ford
Harrison Ford
Niro
Robert
Robert De Niro
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I thought I was very pretty without hair. Naked, more honest somehow. No glamor, just bald old me. I seldom wore wigs or hats. But some people must have thought I was an exhibitionist or a religious fanatic.
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Exhibitionist
Hair
Hats
Honest
Naked
Religious
Wigs
Pretty
Must Me People
Bald
Me People Hair
Fanatic
Seldom
Some People
Somehow
Wore
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I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.
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Big Screen
Series
Tv Series
Move On
Next Thing
Screen
Thrilled
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Basically, they had asked me if I would shave my head or wear a bald cap. I said look, if you are doing a series for five years I would want to shave my hair because I would go bald with all the gum and glue from the bald cap.
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Glue
Gum
Series
Bald
Me Look Doing
Cap
Look Me Hair
Shave
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I was brought to Hollywood by Gene Roddenberry and Michael Eisner, chosen from 600 hopefuls to star in the original 'Star Trek' motion picture. The success of the film, coupled with the allure that I had shaved my head for the role, put a spotlight on me.
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Allure
Chosen
Hollywood
Spotlight
Picture
Original
Brought
Star
Coupled
Michael
Gene
Motion
Motion Picture
Shaved
Star Trek
Trek
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I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.
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Bitterness
Casting Directors
Selling
Accent
Love Me America
Cast
Citizen
Dismissed
Eagerly
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I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier in 'The Wilby Conspiracy' - but everyone told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place, they said, and I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.
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Conspiracy
Opposite
Me Know Everyone
Michael
Failed
Mention
Michael Caine
Starred
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