All Donald Pleasence Quotes
I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.
Donald Pleasence
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I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.
Donald Pleasence
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The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.
Donald Pleasence
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I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.
Donald Pleasence
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I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
Donald Pleasence
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I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.
Donald Pleasence
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The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
Donald Pleasence
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It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
Donald Pleasence
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What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
Donald Pleasence
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I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.
Donald Pleasence
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The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.
Donald Pleasence
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I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
Donald Pleasence
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At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
Donald Pleasence
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The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.
Donald Pleasence
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Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.
Donald Pleasence
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