Cassandra Peterson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Character #Years #Eight
Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Blood #Want #Violence
To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is 'The Exorcist.' It still scares the living hell out of me, and it's because of the fantasy element. It's the exorcism. It's the Devil. It's not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don't do it for me, and I don't call them horror.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Cutting #Guy #House
People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Fun #Thinking #People
People come up to me at conventions and say, 'I was such an outcast, I felt like such a geek, and when I saw you, you made me feel like such a normal person.' It's my favorite thing to hear, because that's how I felt when I was a kid. If Goth would've been around, I would've definitely been Goth. But there wasn't such a thing, so I was just weird.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Kids #People #Saws
It is so hard nowadays to find a movie that I like. I don't mind blood and gore. But I mind when its a slasher film, and its some guy looking for women. I am opposed to that kind of thing. Blood and gore? I love that kind of thing.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Blood #Guy #Mind
I would love to do something like 'Tosh.0,' where I host Internet clips. I did host 'Talk Soup,' which is similar. I love doing that, making fun of video clips on the Internet.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Fun #Video #Soup
I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Stupid #Kids #Play
I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Girl #Real #Halloween
How would Elvira run the state of California? Well, there isn't much I could do that is worse than what Arnold Schwarzenegger has done. Running it into the damn ground. If I was running the whole nation? I would have free Netflix movies for everyone.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Running #California #Netflix
People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#People #Want #Fingers
I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Growing Up #One Day #Costumes
I am very, very anti-slasher.
-- Cassandra Peterson
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Dream #Fantasy #Nightmare
If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Trust #Halloween #Taken
I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Struggle #Years #Dancing
Ive made a career off of Halloween.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Halloween #Careers #Made
If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Character #Thinking #Retiring
At least I get my little black dress cleaned once in awhile.
-- Cassandra Peterson

#Black #Dresses #Littles

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