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I am very, very anti-slasher.
Ive made a career off of Halloween.
I've made a career off of Halloween.
I always say there are no coincidences.
I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive.
I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.
I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s.
[Vincent Price] was the funniest damn guy I ever met.
I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.
[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.
At least I get my little black dress cleaned once in awhile.
Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.
The best was The Yardbirds. I still love The Yardbirds and The Zombies.
I just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix.
When I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet.
I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.
I just count myself really lucky to have a career that I love and that continues to pay my rent.
I remember the '60s, I remember the '80s, but somehow I went directly from the '60s to the '80s.
I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.
Luckily, it's one of my favorite movies [ Night Of The Living Dead]. I never get tired of watching it.
I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me.
I can't stand VPL, visible panty line. So I'm wondering how many other people out there are wearing thongs.
Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.
It's weird. I guess I got so used to [g-strings] when I was really young that I just couldn't stand it anymore.
One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.
I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved.
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience.
I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive, but that [ the day my daughter was born] was one that's still with me.
I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity.
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.
When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.
People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.
There are a lot of other movies I've done multiple times, like Werewolf Of Washington, where I really get tired of watching it.
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.
[Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody.
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.
A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."
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.
[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.
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.
One of my favorite people I got to meet was my childhood idol, Vincent Price. I got to not only meet him, but become friendly with him before he passed away.
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.
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.
[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.
It certainly changes your life. So that may be a cliché, but I think any woman would say that [day when her baby born] would have been the most special day of their life.
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.
I would love to do something like 'Tosh.0,' where I host Internet clips. I did host 'Talk Soup,' which is similar. I love doing that, making fun of video clips on the Internet.
I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.
I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.