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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.

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Bit Blood Different Direction Going Halloween Lot More Obviously Series Story Stupid Take Think

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What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: About Bear Circus Except Get Horrors Like Tell Things You

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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.

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Bullets Carpenter End First Get Halloween John Looking Lying Michael Out Said Seeing Shot Window You

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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.

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Also Been First First One Had Halloween Like Made Nothing Perhaps Second Series Third Though Very Well

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

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Actress Career Early Even Felt Her Jamie Lee Loved She Wonderful Working

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

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: After Any Character Even Lines Method Methods Set Use

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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.

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: About Am Character Constantly Even Himself Holds Leave Lines Me Myself Play Theatre Think Thinking Time Top Walks Way I Am

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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.

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Building Character Creation Deliberate Every Feel Get Goes Grows Know Mechanical Out Part Process Situation Text Through Time Up Will I Feel

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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.

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Actor Am Believes He Live Off On And Off Part Playing Those Turn Who I Am I Can

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

~Donald Pleasence

Topics: Building Part Process Really Stop

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: October 5th, 1919

Died: February 2nd, 1995

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