“Look for great character in an individual and don't look for beautiful names.”
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As written at on his blog http://wearethebest.wordpress.com/ts-satyan/.
“The most Beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex”
In response to criticism that she was too beautiful to play a lonely waitress in Frankie and Johnny, quoted in Pfeiffer: Beyond the Age of Innocence by Thompson, p. 223
Context: The description of the character is that Frankie is an attractive woman if she'd just put a little effort into how she looks. So that's basically the way I played her. I consider myself an attractive woman, and I can be not-so-great-looking if I don't put effort into how I look. But more importantly, the core of the character was someone who had given up on love, and that could be any age, any size, any form of beauty. That could be anybody.
On wearing leotards and fishnet stockings in his early performances.
Rolling Stone interview (2003)
Context: I wore that because it makes me look beautiful. I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, "Wow, I'm really great-looking."... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
“Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.”
Report to Greco (1965)
Interview with Mark Shapiro (2000)