Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Barbara Steele

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British actress Barbara Steele.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Barbara Steele is an English film actress known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. She has been referred to as the "Queen of All Scream Queens" and "Britain's first lady of horror". She played the dual role of Asa and Katia Vajda in Mario Bava's landmark film Black Sunday (1960), and starred in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Long Hair of Death (1964), and Castle of Blood (1964).

British - Actress | Born: December 29, 1937

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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

Barbara Steele

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

Barbara Steele

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Barbara Steele

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

Barbara Steele

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

Barbara Steele

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

Barbara Steele

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

Barbara Steele

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.

Barbara Steele

It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

Barbara Steele

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Barbara Steele

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