Cassandra Peterson Quotes
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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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I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s.
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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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Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.
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[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.
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When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase.
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The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing my daughter for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it get better than another actual person popping out of your stomach, you know?
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I remember the '60s, I remember the '80s, but somehow I went directly from the '60s to the '80s.
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Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, "You should've been a comedian." [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just such a quick, funny wit. I don't think most people would think that about him, and it was really surprising to me. But man, the guy had a brilliant wit.
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The great thing about being in the public eye is that you can really do something for that cause because people love and respect you
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I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.
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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.
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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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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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Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.
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Ive made a career off of Halloween.
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I always say there are no coincidences.
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People were really staying away from me. And that's kind of when I split up with all my best friends at school - they were going, "Something's happened to her, she's totally weird" - and found my new friends, who were Beatles fans.
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I felt like I kind of got to know Elvis Presley, and got a little peek inside what was going on there. That was pretty amazing.
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Vincent Price did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.
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I've met a lot of famous people. I'm lucky enough to have been able to be Elvira. I would probably have to say the most famous is probably Elvis Presley, though. I spent an evening, a night, and part of the next day with him.
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I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on NPR that the whole lemmings thing was faked in the 1950s. They were shooting a wildlife documentary in the '50s, they found a group of lemmings, and the crew chased them all off a cliff. No lemming has ever jumped off a cliff, purposefully, ever. Isn't that unbelievable?
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When I was into The Beatles, I cut my hair into a Beatle haircut, which looked so ridiculously stupid with my little cat-eye glasses that I wore.
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I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.