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🇨🇦Catherine O'Hara

Entertainment

1954–2026

"I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it."

"Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting."

"Your Value Doesn't Decrease Based On Someone's Inability To See Your Worth."

"Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence—the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation."

"It's a utopia. It's not just an African utopia — it's a utopia. It's a place where spirituality and science do not war with each other."

"We have this culture of men, especially, watching pornography, but then offended by a classic nude portrait or photograph, and I've never felt that way."

"My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God."

"I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland."

"It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse."

"I don't label myself one way or another—I have had successful relationships with men and now a woman. I love who I love; it's the person that matters."

"I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with."

"Envy was constantly with him; the Enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have."

"When you're with somebody for a long time or have a child with someone, you start to expect them to be this person you had in mind. Then if they don't fill the expectation, resentment starts to come up."

"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."

🇺🇸George Lopez (comedian)

"On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin."

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."

"People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am."

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🇯🇵Nakamura Kichiemon II

Entertainment

1944–2021

"When you discard yourself, real love comes into relief."

"I could have made $2bn or $3bn — and ended up with some very cruel addiction — but I chose to be a civil rights warrior instead."

"GLAMOUR: Were there certain things that you felt were particularly important in portraying Wonder Woman?"

"Had it? Should've shot it! Now, you're dearly departed."

"Oh my God! I was always wondering what it would be like to run over a dried up, stinky, dick licker."

"The only way to want millions of people invading your life is to be off your rocker. This industry is conducive to cuckoo. It likes cuckoo. It encourages cuckoo. I've had to find my sanity."

🇬🇧Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

Psychology

b. 1946

"There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind."

"We were not aware of YouTube until "Lazy Sunday." We’d had our own website with streaming capabilities. After "Lazy Sunday," we were like, "Why are we paying for bandwidth and shit?"

"I just fell into the acting thing as kind of an accident."

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