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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."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

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Amber Hurdle

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

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Amber Hurdle

"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."

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Amber Hurdle

"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."

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Amber Hurdle

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

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Amber Hurdle

"Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start."

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Amber Hurdle

"I never cared about money."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."

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Amber Hurdle

"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."

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

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

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Donald Pleasence
"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."

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

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

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Donald Pleasence
"All the real work is done in the rehearsal period."

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Donald Pleasence
"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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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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