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Elsa Lanchester Quotes

1902–1986 England

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.

England
Actresses

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Facts like that make one feel blue-eyed and normal.

Stardom is all hard work, aspirins and purgatives.

She's better on stage, from a distance. On a screen, close up, she makes you want to dive for cover.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingerprints.

She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth—or anywhere else.

The most memorable thing I did in that film, I believe, was my screaming. In almost all my movies since, I've been called upon to scream. I don't know if it's by chance, but I would like to think that I'm not hired for that talent alone.

On playing the title role in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elsa Lanchester (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.