Persis Quotes

#1. I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."
~Aunt Persis

Constance Savery

#2. Day by day, the superficial mask she'd donned chafed more and more; and no matter how many disguises Persis took on as the Poppy, she couldn't help but feel they fit her better than the one she wore at home.

Diana Peterfreund

#3. 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?

Persis Khambatta

#4. She knew that the paint and the clothes and the hair were more than fashion for Persis Blake. They were armor.

Diana Peterfreund

#5. The tiniest of earthquakes seemed to rustle through him, the kind that shakes petals off flowers, as Justen became aware of the gulf between what he was supposed to feel for Persis Blake and what he actually did.

Diana Peterfreund

#6. If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes.

Persis Khambatta

#7. I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

Persis Khambatta

#8. One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.

Persis Khambatta

#9. If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.

Persis Khambatta

#10. I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

Persis Khambatta

#11. I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.

Persis Khambatta

#12. 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.

Persis Khambatta

#13. Having shaved my head for the role put a spotlight on me.

Persis Khambatta

#14. 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.

Persis Khambatta

#15. 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.

Persis Khambatta

#16. Besides, a bald cap would have never looked real.

Persis Khambatta

#17. 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.

Persis Khambatta

#18. 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.

Persis Khambatta

#19. 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.

Persis Khambatta

#20. After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

Persis Khambatta

#21. 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.

Persis Khambatta

#22. I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Persis Khambatta

#23. 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.

Persis Khambatta

#24. I know that nobody can become a star without a team.

Persis Khambatta

#25. I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Persis Khambatta

#26. Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

Persis Khambatta

#27. 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.

Persis Khambatta

#28. 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.

Persis Khambatta

#29. We are all part of the same energy that envelops.

Persis Khambatta

#30. I mean, every Star Trek episode you saw was just phenomenal.

Persis Khambatta

#31. 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.

Persis Khambatta