Peter Cushing famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Want
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 associations of things I've done.
-- Peter Cushing

#Thinking #Association #Sound
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 what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.
-- Peter Cushing

#Years #Roles #Twenties
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 money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.
-- Peter Cushing

#Silly #Long #Film
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 making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.
-- Peter Cushing

#Thinking #Film #Mediums
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-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher.
-- Peter Cushing

#Country #Animal #Thinking
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 hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
-- Peter Cushing

#Hate #Two #Theatre
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 with such abiding affection into their sore and yellow as this splendid mans creations have in mine!
-- Peter Cushing

#Character #Yellow #Impact
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, but don't always get.
-- Peter Cushing

#Needs #Lucky #Moments
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 kids would adore Star Wars.
-- Peter Cushing

#Stars #War #Kids
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 on mothers hats and things. I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that. It was very much in my blood.
-- Peter Cushing

#Mother #Blood #Dressing Up
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.
-- Peter Cushing

#Hate #Asking #Paint

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