"My agent called and said "How'd you like to do a movie?" Great! I had not done a movie in years, California? No, it's going to be shot in New Jersey, and it's ten days work, [I'll] make $1,000 a day. But there's a catch: It's a horror film. I said "Oh no! It's bad enough I'm known as a game show player on I've Got a Secret (1952). I said "Send me the script." He sent it to me, I read it, and I said "What a piece of shit!" No one's ever going to see this thing! It will come, it will go, that's the end of it. I called him, and said "I'll do it." And that's my part of story." a proposito del suo ruolo in Venerdì 13 che le valse una candidatura ai... Razzie Awards!

 (Betsy Palmer, pseudonimo di Patricia Betsy Hrunek, attrice; Chicago, 1º novembre 1926 – Danbury, 29 maggio 2015)