- The main thing about Hammer [films] was that if you went to see a film in the cinema, the gasps were interspersed with giggles because people were giggling at themselves for being frightened, they were frightening themselves; and this is what made Hammer very special.
- When I first started doing Hammer, all the so-called classic actors looked down on the horror film. There is a great thrill for me in having done Hammer and being known. All the other things I did, nobody remembers those. But the horror films, I'm very grateful to them because they built me a fan base, and I'm very touched that people will come and ask for my autograph.
- Hammer knew that it wasn't what you saw that was important, it was what you didn't see. There is nothing more frightening than your hidden fears.
- In England they decided that, because I had been a fashion model, there was no way I'd be able to act. in Italy, however, they decided otherwise, and that is how I began my career as an actress.
- Hammer was like a family, a very talented family, and there was a wonderful canteen down there! To work with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee . . . I've been more than lucky, I've been honoured. They were so wonderful to work with, both so generous as actors with a wonderful atmosphere on the set and a wonderful sense of humour.
- I adored science-fiction. When I was a very little girl my father used to have all these science-fiction magazines and we used to go through them together . . . My mind had been opened up to science-fiction by my father, so when I got these scripts it wasn't, "What's this rubbish?", it was, "That's interesting".
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