Peter Cushing Quotes
-
Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their sore and yellow as this splendid mans creations have in mine!
→ -
I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.
→ -
Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.
→ -
I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.
→ -
People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher.
→ -
That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.
→ -
I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.
→ -
My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.
→ -
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.
→ -
As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing up, you know, playing pretend, putting on mothers hats and things. I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that. It was very much in my blood.
→ -
There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
→ -
You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.
→
Related Authors
-
Carrie Fisher Actress -
John Carradine Actor -
Christopher Lee Actor -
Vincent Price Actor -
George Lucas Film director -
Peter Lorre Actor -
Terence Fisher Film director -
Bela Lugosi Actor -
Peter Mayhew Actor -
Doug McClure Actor -
Jimmy Sangster Screenwriter -
Barbara Hammer Filmmaker -
Basil Rathbone Actor -
Nigel Kneale Screenwriter -
Alec Guinness Actor -
David Prowse Bodybuilder -
Bram Stoker Novelist -
Joseph Cotten Film actor -
Mark Hamill Actor -
Boris Karloff Actor