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"I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?"
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"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
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"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
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"VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really."
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"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."
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"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
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"Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
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"The process of building a part doesn't really stop."
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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."
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"I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?"
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"The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work."
Work
"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."
Money
"I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in."
People
"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."
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"All the real work is done in the rehearsal period."
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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."
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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."
Career
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