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

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Peter Cushing

“There is nothing to fear except the power you give to your own demons.”
“Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.”

Source : "George Zimmerman accuses Obama of inflaming racial tensions" by Jethro Mullen, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2015.
“The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.”

Source : "Rex Stout: 'No Man My Age Writes Books'" by John F. Bake, Publishers Weekly Magazine, pp. 28 - 29, October 29, 1973.
“I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.”
“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.”
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
“When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.”
“I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.”

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