I’ve always watched pop-culture shows, and I found out when I thought about this, Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson were the two most memorable people from the sixties, and I found it interesting that things like pop-culture shows put them on the same kind of celebrity status, and I thought that dichotomy of positive and negative, putting those two names together, represented what I had to say and what I was about. (On where the name, Marilyn Manson, came from.)
Month: January 2017
Happy Birthday: Robert Duvall
I got into acting because I wanted to act, not to become a star. The word ‘star’ is so strange, especially in this country, I think, I don’t know. It has something to do with a whole scene. Like with The Great Santini (1979), when I shook the producer’s hand for the first time – before I could even sit down in the chair – he said, “They’re talking about Oscars.” We hadn’t even started rehearsals yet. I mean, the whole industry is so geared to that – Oscars, the star system.
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