“On one occasion, I tried to cash in the pay check, and they wouldn't give me the money, 'cause the check was for one `Donald O'Brien'. So I had to go to the Embassy and have my passport corrected, with `Donald' in parentheses.”

—  Donald O'Brien (actor)

Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)

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