Quotes by Donald Pleasence - Page 1

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Done
Real
Real Work
Rehearsal
Period
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The process of building a part doesn't really stop.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Building
Process
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I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Hero
Physically
Hardly
Parts
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I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
People
Tendencies
Thinking
People More Think
Tendency
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I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Actors
Likes
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I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Fear
Believe
People
Believe People I Believe
Believe I Believe People
Frighten
Heads
Showing
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The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Dying
Halloween
Ideas
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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 / Film Actor
Big News
Horror Film
News
Gotten
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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 / Film Actor
Character
Lines
Method
Use
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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 / Film Actor
Bears
Circus
Horror
Bear
Except
Horrors
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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 / Film Actor
Actors
Believe
Turns
Believes
On And Off
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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 / Film Actor
Actresses
Careers
Jamie
Wonderful
Lee
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Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Approach
British
Continental
Directors
Usa
Somewhat
Opposed
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It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Character
Hands
Years
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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 / Film Actor
Bother
Careers
Hopeless
Horror
Work Me Keep
Typecast
Hopelessly
Horror Films
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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 / Film Actor
Running
Race
Winning
Necessarily
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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 / Film Actor
Sister
Facts
Firsts
Guilt
Michael
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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 / Film Actor
Blood
Halloween
Series
Stupid
Thinking
Direction
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At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Bullets
Carpenter
Halloween
Lying
Said
Seeing
Window
Looking
Shot
Michael
John
John Carpenter
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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 / Film Actor
Choices
Halloween
Salary
Earnings
Figured
Offered
Percentage
Ultimately
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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 / Film Actor
Character
Lines
Play
Theatre
Thinking
Walks
Time Myself Thinking
Holds
Mumble
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John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Carpenter
Focused
Halloween
Ideas
Remains
Series
Vision
Original
Concept
Directed
Followed
Intent
John
John Carpenter
Original Intent
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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 / Film Actor
Building Up
Character
Creation
Deliberate
Goes On
Grows
Mechanical
Text
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John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Halloween
Ignored
Insane
Meetings
Real
Suggestions
Direction
John
Picked
Sequel
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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 / Film Actor
Firsts
Halloween
Made
Series
First One
Third
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