79+ Cassandra Peterson Quotes On Marriage, Success And Prayer

Cassandra Peterson is an American comedian and actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV wearing a revealing, black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Elvira's Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. She has since capitalized on her fame with a long-running line of Elvira merchandise and has made numerous appearances in film and television. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Cassandra Peterson on love, life, marriage.

Top 10 Cassandra Peterson Quotes

1. 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.
2. I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.
3. If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.
4. Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
5. 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.
6. Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.
7. I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.
8. 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.
9. 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?
10. 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.

Cassandra Peterson Short Quotes

• I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive.
• I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.
• 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 do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.
• I remember the '60s, I remember the '80s, but somehow I went directly from the '60s to the '80s.
• I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s.
• I always say there are no coincidences.
• Ive made a career off of Halloween.
• [Vincent Price] was the funniest damn guy I ever met.

Cassandra Peterson Quotes About Love

It is so hard nowadays to find a movie that I like. I don't mind blood and gore. But I mind when its a slasher film, and its some guy looking for women. I am opposed to that kind of thing. Blood and gore? I love that kind of thing. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

The best was The Yardbirds. I still love The Yardbirds and The Zombies. — Cassandra Peterson

I just count myself really lucky to have a career that I love and that continues to pay my rent. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

Cassandra Peterson Quotes About Working

Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

I'm really proud and happy that we finally got it together thanks to Tweeterhead, which is the company that put it together for me. It's something that I always wanted to do, but really did not have the time to work on myself — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

Cassandra Peterson Quotes About Year

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. — Cassandra Peterson

I think, cumulatively, I probably have done more photo sessions than just about everyone. Maybe as much as a supermodel. I know they model all the time, but have they done it for 35 years? I don't think so. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

Cassandra Peterson Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

[Vincent Price] had a fish recipe where he wrapped [the fish] in aluminum foil and put in these herbs. And then you put it in the dishwasher and then you wash your dishes, and when you're done, your fish is steamed and it's perfect. But he was very sophisticated as far as art and food and all of that went. — Cassandra Peterson

How would Elvira run the state of California? Well, there isn't much I could do that is worse than what Arnold Schwarzenegger has done. Running it into the damn ground. If I was running the whole nation? I would have free Netflix movies for everyone. — Cassandra Peterson

There are a lot of other movies I've done multiple times, like Werewolf Of Washington, where I really get tired of watching it. — Cassandra Peterson

I have a thing about underwear. I have to wear thongs. Since I was a showgirl in Las Vegas, and I was wearing G-strings all the time, I got this thing where I cannot stand to have on regular underwear. It drives me out of my mind. — Cassandra Peterson

Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, "You should've been a comedian." [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just such a quick, funny wit. I don't think most people would think that about him, and it was really surprising to me. But man, the guy had a brilliant wit. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

I am very, very anti-slasher. — Cassandra Peterson

My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies. — Cassandra Peterson

[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. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

People think, "Oh my god, you've been doing this job for so many years, it must get boring." It's like, "No, hell no," because I get to sing, I get to dance, I get to be on TV and in films, I get to do merchandising, licensing, show up at conventions, write, or take photographs for my book. There are so many different things going on for me that it never gets boring. It's always fun and interesting. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now. — Cassandra Peterson

I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome. — Cassandra Peterson

[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. — Cassandra Peterson

I've met a lot of famous people. I'm lucky enough to have been able to be Elvira. I would probably have to say the most famous is probably Elvis Presley, though. I spent an evening, a night, and part of the next day with him. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

[Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody. — Cassandra Peterson

At least I get my little black dress cleaned once in awhile. — Cassandra Peterson

One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on NPR that the whole lemmings thing was faked in the 1950s. They were shooting a wildlife documentary in the '50s, they found a group of lemmings, and the crew chased them all off a cliff. No lemming has ever jumped off a cliff, purposefully, ever. Isn't that unbelievable? — Cassandra Peterson

I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience. — Cassandra Peterson

I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity. — Cassandra Peterson

[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher. — Cassandra Peterson

Brian Hyland just happened to be playing in our town and that song [ "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"] was really big. And I got to go back by the stage door, and he autographed a piece of paper for me and I just, I went crazy. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange. — Cassandra Peterson

I can't stand VPL, visible panty line. So I'm wondering how many other people out there are wearing thongs. — Cassandra Peterson

People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

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." — Cassandra Peterson

It's in the public domain. That's one of the reasons I do it so much. But luckily, it's a brilliant film [ Night Of The Living Dead]. Every horror aficionado must see that film at least once. — Cassandra Peterson

I had a dream about riding a black cat, and then the next day I was at this antique mart, and I found this little devil riding a black cat - an Austrian bronze, tiny little thing. It was super tiny. And it was kind of like, "Oh my God, my dream came true." Except it was a devil, of course. Not me. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

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. — Cassandra Peterson

I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me. — Cassandra Peterson

Luckily, it's one of my favorite movies [ Night Of The Living Dead]. I never get tired of watching it. — Cassandra Peterson

Life Lessons by Cassandra Peterson

1. Cassandra Peterson's work teaches us that it is possible to be successful and creative while also maintaining a sense of humor and lightheartedness.
2. Her work also emphasizes the importance of self-expression and having the courage to be yourself.
3. Finally, her work demonstrates the power of hard work and dedication in achieving success.