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Ive made a career off of Halloween.

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Cassandra Peterson
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 17
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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 knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.
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I can't tell you how exciting it was, because Vincent Price had made a huge impression on me when I was a little kid. I just loved him in films. And so meeting him and becoming friends with him was a big deal for me.
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I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.
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I was probably about 13 or 14, and I went by myself to the City Auditorium in Colorado Springs and saw the guy who wrote and sang Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini. Brian something. And I got to meet him and he signed an autograph for me, a little piece of paper. Brian Hyland! It was so bizarre.
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I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive.
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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 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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There's a lot that I watch over and over. But I have to say, because of my line of work as a horror-movie hostess, I've probably seen Night Of The Living Dead more than any movie. I've probably seen it more than George A. Romero.
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I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved.
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I just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix.
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Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.
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There are a lot of other movies I've done multiple times, like Werewolf Of Washington, where I really get tired of watching it.
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I am very, very anti-slasher.
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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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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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Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.
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I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience.
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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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I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.
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