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Donald Pleasence

"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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"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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Donna Grant

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

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Donna Grant

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

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Donna Grant

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

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Donna Grant

"The first is last, and the last is first."

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Donna Grant

"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

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Donna Grant

"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."

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Donna Grant

"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."

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Donna Grant

"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."

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Donna Grant

"Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King."

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Donna Grant

"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."

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

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Donald Pleasence
"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."

Film

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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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Donald Pleasence
"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

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Donald Pleasence
"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."

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Donald Pleasence
"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."

Time

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Donald Pleasence
"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."

American

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Donald Pleasence
"I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do."

Actor

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Donald Pleasence
"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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Donald Pleasence
"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."

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