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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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Akshay Vasu

"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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Akshay Vasu

"Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories."

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Akshay Vasu

"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."

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Akshay Vasu

"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."

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Akshay Vasu

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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Akshay Vasu

"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

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

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

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

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

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