Top 40 Pleasence Quotes
#1. I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world - Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know ... foreigners.
Peter Falk
#2. While I still do a lot of horror, it doesn't feel to me like I'm repeating myself. I like to stay interested. I'm kind of turning into one of those elder statesmen, like a Vincent Price or a Donald Pleasence. I like to think of myself alongside those guys.
Robert Englund
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.
Criss Jami
#7. I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
Donald Pleasence
#9. That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
Algernon Sidney
#10. The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
Donald Pleasence
#11. 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
#12. I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.
Judge Reinhold
#13. I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.
Alex Lifeson
#14. 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
#16. However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Gautama Buddha
#17. I am Otomiya Haine. I'm a spirited fifteen year old!!
Arina Tanemura
#18. 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
#20. I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.
Donald Pleasence
#21. Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.
Thiruvalluvar
#22. 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
#23. What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
Donald Pleasence
#24. 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
#25. Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
Donald Pleasence
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.
Donald Pleasence
#31. I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.
Mia Hamm
#32. 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
#34. I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.
Donald Pleasence
#36. It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
Donald Pleasence
#37. 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
#38. I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.
Donald Pleasence
#39. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
C.S. Lewis
#40. 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
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