Horror Quotes · Page 26

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

— Evan Esar

 My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

— Kathy Bates

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

— Donald Pleasence

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

— Sia Furler

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

— Richard Price

“What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true.”

— Rick Chiantaretto

“Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?”

— Steven Ramirez

I love horror. It's funny, because 'The Invitation' never struck me as horror, but it's definitely that type of thriller.

— Karyn Kusama

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more…

— Avey Tare

Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Things had gone badly at Hell House, although not quite as horribly as the '31 investigation. At least this time there were…

— Nancy A. Collins

“I nearly forced my own way through the undergrowth to leave the sight behind. I was afraid I'd encouraged the figure to…

— Ramsey Campbell

The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world,…

— Joseph Heller

Horror has always reflected societal anxiety. Like 'Godzilla' coming out of the aftermath of nuclear war. It tells us what we as…

— Nia DaCosta

I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I…

— Jackie Earle Haley

I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used…

— Gillian Anderson

What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies…

— Mike Flanagan

“Yet I feel like Theseus running madly through the coils of the labyrinth with horrors following at my heels and every twist…

— Jo Graham

“In your country, if you are not scared enough already, you can go to watch a horror film... For me and the…

— Chris Cleave

The Lighthouse' couldn't have been made without this kind of freedom that is allowed to some filmmakers to be able to play…

— Robert Eggers

“I wonder how much- or how little- they remember. I am somehow convinced that they don't remember any of it, because they…

— Stephen King

Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors,…

— John Kennedy Toole

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are…

— Henry James

It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the…

— David Lasser

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

— Sam Raimi

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

— William James

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

— Jacque Fresco

I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].

— Geena Davis

For the first time I tried to involve an important social message about transgenders in the horror comedy genre.

— Raghava Lawrence

I mean, I don't like horror movies. I just don't like being scared for the sake of being scared.

— Cole Escola

It's nice to wake up and not have a sense of horror about what I might have done.

— Lou Sanders

“He thought he was becoming stronger. He was becoming dependent.”

— Valon G

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

— Eli Roth

“He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“You’re just spooked. It’s Halloween; we’re all kind of spooked. That’s just the way it is. - Tory”

— Matthew Leeth

I certainly wouldn't have a facelift or a nip and tuck; that fills me with horror.

— June Whitfield

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

— Lana Parrilla

“Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.”

— Konrad Lorenz

“To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams.”

— Rob Shepherd

I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.

— Bryan Fuller