Donald Pleasence Quotes

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

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

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

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

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

It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

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.

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

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.

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.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

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

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.

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

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.

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.