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 k…

- 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 of course, there are some that I've enjoyed mak…

- 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 have either been a monster-maker or a monster-d…

- 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 otherwise the films don't make mo…

- 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 performances I feel I've given all I can. I…

- Peter Cushing

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, b…

- 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

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

- Peter Cushing

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 o…

- Peter Cushing