Top Donald Pleasence Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Donald Pleasence Biography

Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE (/ˈplɛzəns/; 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor. His most notable film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis in Halloween and most of its sequels, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape, SEN 5241 in THX 1138, and the President of the United States in Escape from New York.

Read about Donald Pleasence in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Donald Pleasence Quotes

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

Actress, Actresses, Careers, Curtis, Loved, Wonderful

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

People, Read, Tendencies, Tendency, Think, Thinking

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.

Actors, Believe, Believes, Part, Playing, Turns

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.

Firsts, Halloween, Made, Perhaps, Series, Though

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

Believe, Fear, Frighten, Heads, People, Showing

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.

Bother, Careers, Definitely, Hopeless, Hopelessly, 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.

Character, Holds, Lines, Play, Think, Thinking

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.

Bullets, Halloween, Lying, Window

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.

Choices, Flat, Front, Halloween, Money, Salary

The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

Building, Part, Process, Stop

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

Hero, Parts, Physically, Right

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

Bears, Circus, Horror, Horrors, Tell, Things

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.

Films, Look, Race, Running, Win, Winning

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Character, Lines, Method, Methods, Use

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

Dying, Films, Halloween, Idea, Ideas

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.

Building Up, Character, Goes On, Grows, Process, Situation