Things that were not immediately obvious to me

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Two interesting quotes from Jack Nicholson, from interviews done around the time he was working on “The Shining”:

The average celebrity meets in one year ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

[A]s a successful actor you can’t have one set of theories; y’know, you can go for years saying “I’m gonna get this thing real because they really haven’t seen it real – y’know, they just keep seeing one fashion of unreal after the other that passes as real” and, y’know, you go mad with realism and then you come up against someone like Stanley [Kubrick] who says “yeah, it’s real, but it’s not interesting”.

Interesting interview with Cassandra Peterson, the woman behind the “Elvira” character, up at the Onion’s AV Club. She makes a particularly interesting remark on the subject of motivation:

My character’s not owned by anyone, which has a great side and a bad side. The great side is, I can do anything I want. The bad side is, I don’t have the money from a big studio behind me, so I get much less exposure. But it pays off when I go to horror conventions or Comic-Con, where you see people from Star Wars or Star Trek or whatever. When people wonder why they get tired of their characters and I don’t, it’s because I make 100 percent of everything I get, and they only make a small percentage. The studio gets all the money, and they’re just “allowed” to appear and get paid a fee. When I sell something, I get all the money. So I don’t ever get tired of my character, because I get all the money. I was at a convention with “Captain Kirk”—you know, what’s his name—and all he wanted to do was get away from that character. And it’s because he can’t make any money at it.