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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
Working
Loved
Her
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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
I Am
I Can
Live
" I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is. "
Donald Pleasence
Than
More
I Think
" 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
Off
Direction
Halloween
" 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
Me
Like
Career
" I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines. "
Donald Pleasence
Lines
Use
Method
" 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
Like
Well
Nothing
" Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. "
Donald Pleasence
Approach
British
Directors
" All the real work is done in the rehearsal period. "
Donald Pleasence
Rehearsal
Period
Done
" 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
Live
Guilt
Fact
" I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I? "
Donald Pleasence
Hardly
Hero
Physically
" 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
Halloween
Stupid
Think
" 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
Building
Time
Process
" It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film. "
Donald Pleasence
Big
Film
Horror
" 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
I Am
Myself
Character
" I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do. "
Donald Pleasence
Talk
Going
Actor
" I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in. "
Donald Pleasence
I Believe
You
Without
" 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
Halloween
End
You
" 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
Win
Done
Race
" What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear? "
Donald Pleasence
Bear
You
Things
" 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
Future
Halloween
Money
" The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work. "
Donald Pleasence
Dying
Back
Halloween
" The process of building a part doesn't really stop. "
Donald Pleasence
Stop
Building
Process