Peter Cushing Quotes

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• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.
• I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years…

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