Peter Cushing

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial…

— Peter Cushing

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I…

— Peter Cushing

As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing…

— Peter Cushing

I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and…

— Peter Cushing

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some…

— Peter Cushing

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but…

— Peter Cushing

My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience…

— Peter Cushing

Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and…

— Peter Cushing

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me…

— Peter Cushing

People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I…

— Peter Cushing

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and…

— Peter Cushing

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two…

— Peter Cushing

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…

— Peter Cushing

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

— Peter Cushing