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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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Amber Hurdle

"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

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Amber Hurdle

"And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor."

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Amber Hurdle

"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part."

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Amber Hurdle

"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."

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Amber Hurdle

"Directors, like actors, get typecast."

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Amber Hurdle

"What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me."

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Amber Hurdle

"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."

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Amber Hurdle

"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour."

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

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

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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
"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
"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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Donald Pleasence
"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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