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Donald Pleasence

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

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

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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is."

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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."

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"He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to."

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"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."

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"Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles."

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"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."

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"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."

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"(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."

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"Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr."

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"I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?"
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"I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in."
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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."
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"All the real work is done in the rehearsal period."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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 am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off."
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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."
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