I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

- Donald Pleasence

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

- Donald Pleasence

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

- Donald Pleasence

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

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

- Donald Pleasence

I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop…

- Donald Pleasence

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 a…

- Donald Pleasence

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…

- Donald Pleasence

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured …

- Donald Pleasence