I've been prepping for my role as Medusa.

Some roles have been with me forever

— Benicio Del Toro

In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique…

— Donatella Versace

“Every part of her was still except her hair, which blew round her face in the damp night like Medusa's serpentine locks rearing to…

— Katherine Pine

“Medusa reminds us that we must not take the female “monster” at face value; that we must not only weigh her beneficent against her…

— Miriam Robbins Dexter

“ In ancient times, the Gorgon Medusa lived on the far side of Oceanus in the land of Night. She was an awesome dragonlike…

— Lynne Ewing

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang…

— Ray Bradbury

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of…

— Paul Celan

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Medusa's lips split with that challenging smile, and for a second he recognized her somehow, he knew her on some primal level, the same…

— S.J. Kincaid

“Philologically, the name Medusa means the “ruling one.” But by the time of the earliest Greek texts which contain myth, those of Homer, Medusa…

— Miriam Robbins Dexter

Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant…

— Rick Riordan

“According to Greek mythology, Medusa is a Triple Goddess, one of three gorgon sisters—Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa—representing past, present, and future. Only Medusa exists…

— Joan Marler

“You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you…

— Mike Carey & Peter Gross

If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow