Brian Olsen > Quotes

“smile over pain wasn’t always a mask. Sometimes it was a shield. When”
― Brian Olsen, Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom

“Caitlin Ross was a pretty blonde white girl in a room full of pretty blonde white girls. She looked over the sea of heart-shaped faces and sighed. Every open call was the same, a swarm of female actors putting the lie to all of her father’s ungrammatical assurances that Caitlin was “very unique.” The audition was for an all-white musical adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun, which the producers were re-titling Caucrasian. It would undoubtedly be horrible and it didn’t pay, but Caitlin hadn’t been working lately and was getting desperate to appear in something. When she had emailed the company her headshot and résumé she had claimed that a reviewer had once described her as “like a young, white Debbie Allen,” and almost immediately she was asked to come in and read for the part of Beneatha. She”
― Brian Olsen, Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom

“It was the sort of house where you knew you could help yourself to whatever was in the fridge and nobody would mind. A”
― Brian Olsen, Dakota Bell and the Wastes of Time