Persis Khambatta Quotes

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

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

Besides, a bald cap would have never looked real.

I was brought to Hollywood by Gene Roddenberry and Michael Eisner, chosen from 600 hopefuls to star in the original ‘Star Trek’ motion picture. The success of the film, coupled with the allure that I had shaved my head for the role, put a spotlight on me.

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.

We are all part of the same energy that envelops.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

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.