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Donald Pleasence Quotes

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

Donald Pleasence

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: October 5, 1919 - February 2, 1995

Topics

You Circus Bear Tell Things Get

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

Business Me Show Business Excited

Directing is not a job. It's more like a career. Which is great!

Great Job Career More Directing

I get a stack of scripts, like, once a month, and most of the time, you find these placeholder girls that are there to provide a bounce for the male character. So we know he's funny because she's serious and she's mad at him. We know he's strong because she needs saving. So really, her job is to validate this personality trait of our hero or male.

Funny Character Time Hero Job You

I don't generally believe in people being knighted.

People Believe Being Generally

I'm crazy excited to be performing at the MTV Brand new 2017 showcase! MTV has always been about showcasing new talent, and to be selected by the team to perform on the night is an honour!

Talent Team Crazy Night Brand New

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

Character Empathy Sympathy Easy Hard

You just can't fake chemistry.

Fake You Chemistry Just

Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'

Christine Pelosi

Work Opportunity People Colleagues

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

Colin Trevorrow

School People You Teach Film Public

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Character Alone You Unknown Risk

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Story Way Fail Being Whole Knows

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

Live Age Childhood Parents Me House

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