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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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When I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet.
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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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I am very, very anti-slasher.
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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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I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.
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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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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.
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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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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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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 just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix.
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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 vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me.
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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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[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.
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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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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 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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Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.
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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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