I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

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.

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 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.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

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.

Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.

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.

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.

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 personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.

The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it's a very family-centered holiday.

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.

The envier praises me unknowingly.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

The best measure of success, is how you deal with failure

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.