"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."
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"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."
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"I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved."
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"I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s."
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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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"The best was The Yardbirds. I still love The Yardbirds and The Zombies."
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"At least I get my little black dress cleaned once in awhile."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs."
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"I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity."
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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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"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.""
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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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