Greg Sestero Quotes

#1. I was part of Quintuplets, I played a cat - this is my first drama.

David Giuntoli

#2. But performing in The Room was, by this point, like drinking the very last dregs of something through a ting straw: It took a lot of effort and you barely tasted it.

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#3. I was a tall, sandy-blond Northern California kid. Tommy, meanwhile, appeared to have been grown somewhere dark and moist.

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#4. Mark responds to Peter's accusation with an uncharacteristically abrupt burst of anger and tries to throw Peter off the roof. Then Mark immediately apologizes to Peter for trying to kill him, and Peter lets it slide. It's probably the most swiftly forgiven attempted murder in the history of film.

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#5. The only casting directors who'd be willing to call Tommy in on the basis of this headshot were the ones curious about what it was like to be murdered.

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#6. I looked at the actors with whom I'd grown so familiar over the last few months: Scott Holmes (who was playing Mike - and who was eventually credited as "Mike Holmes" because Tommy forgot his real name),

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#7. Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that's usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: "That was brilliant!"

Gabriel Mann

#8. Tommy showed me around, starting with the photos on the walls, many of which were of himself, including a few grand, framed neoclassical portraits he'd had done.

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#9. In the love scene's final shot, Johnny gets out of bed and walks bare-assed to the bathroom. Tommy thought long and hard about his decision to show his ass. "I need to do it," he told me. "I have to show my ass or this movie won't sell.

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#10. Gene Simmons after three months in the Gobi Desert? The Hunchback of Notre Dame following corrective surgery? An escaped Muppet? The drummer from Ratt?

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#11. Money, you could say, was the elephant in The Room.

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#12. How you get from an unanticipated football hand-off to potential hospitalization, I have no idea.

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#13. You have built a human relationship on the foundation of asbestos.

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#14. Sometimes, I'll craft a scene that's so poignant; on the last keystroke I'll raise my hands high overhead and scream "Yes!" at the top of my lungs. I have yet to experience an orgasm so powerful and fulfilling.

Max Hawthorne

#15. I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.

Elizabeth I

#16. We'd been shooting this idiotic conversation for more than an hour.

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#17. The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.

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#18. What I was sure of was that Tommy had something I'd never seen in anyone else: a blind and unhinged and totally unfounded ambition. He was so out of touch, so lacking in self-awareness, yet also wildly captivating. That night there was this aura around Tommy- an aura of the possible.

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#19. With that, Tommy went off to do his seagull thing elsewhere on set - making a lot of irritating noise while simultaneously shitting on everyone.

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#20. I still can't unsee Tommy's outfit: nighttime sunglasses, a dark blazer as loose and baggy as rain gear, sand-colored cargo pants with pockets filled to capacity (was he smuggling potatoes?), a white tank top, clunky Frankenstein combat boots, and two belts. Yes, two belts.

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#21. We argue, as you know. I don't think she like me, but so what. I say how I feel. Feelings. That's all we have as human beings.' - Tommy

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#22. Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

Lyndon B. Johnson