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

— Elsa Lanchester

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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.

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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