"Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that."

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Source : "Face it: O'Hara is worth your 'Consideration'". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 15, 2006.

Catherine O'Hara

#Character Quotes #Age Quotes #Roles Quotes

“All the time I was plowing through books on dyslexia, I found myself asking: what if, what if? What if you were a kid the 1950s with this condition, when there were no books on it, when there was no understanding of it. I remember kids in my class at school who just didn't seem to progress in their reading. There was no extra help. People just thought, "Oh, he or she isn't so bright, or they're obstinate."”
“I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.”
“I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.”
“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.”
“I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue eyes. So I was always straightening my hair, wearing colored contacts, and I never tanned, if I could help it.”
“Everything is going to work out-there's no other option.”
“Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.”

Source : "King of bling". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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