Cassandra Peterson Quotes

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.

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• I had a dream about riding a black cat, and then the next day I was at this antique mart, and I found this little devil riding a black cat - an Austrian bronze, tiny little thing. It was super tiny. And it was kind of like, "Oh my God, my dream came true." Except it was a devil, of course. Not me.

  

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• When I lived in Las Vegas, I was meeting everybody: Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones - we won't go there - but all these people that were working in Vegas a million years ago, way before I was Elvira.

  

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• Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one.

  

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• When Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark came out, I got to go to Japan and Australia and France, Italy, Germany, everywhere with the movie. That was great, because I love traveling.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in a Liverpool accent.

  

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  • Liverpool

• 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.

  

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  • Caricatures

• [Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody.

  

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  • Concerts
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• At least I get my little black dress cleaned once in awhile.

  

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• I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.

  

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• I just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix.

  

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• I loved Wilson Pickett, so I just went on from there. I became sort of a semi-groupie because, I don't know, I got bitten by the music bug.

  

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• Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

  

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• I think, cumulatively, I probably have done more photo sessions than just about everyone. Maybe as much as a supermodel. I know they model all the time, but have they done it for 35 years? I don't think so.

  

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• 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.

  

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  • Halloween
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• I go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me.

  

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  • Shows
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  • Grammys

• I just count myself really lucky to have a career that I love and that continues to pay my rent.

  

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• It didn't sound that appealing and it wasn't paying much, ... They liked a character that I was doing that was sort of a Valley girl type ...They said they wanted me to do that character but come up with some sort of outfit that was spooky.

  

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• I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity.

  

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  • America
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  • Opportunity

• One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.

  

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  • Model
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  • Cover

• [Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.

  

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  • Taught
  • Fish
  • Cook

• Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.

  

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  • Cat
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• I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing.

  

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• I have a thing about underwear. I have to wear thongs. Since I was a showgirl in Las Vegas, and I was wearing G-strings all the time, I got this thing where I cannot stand to have on regular underwear. It drives me out of my mind.

  

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