Top 130 Monsters Quotes

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren’t monsters, but it wasn’t a good childhood.

We create monsters and then we can’t control them.

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with ‘M’ for some reason.

I’ve always been scared of the dark and aliens and monsters and things like that.

I’m quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

Fictional realms are usually terrible places to vacation, as they tend to be full of monsters and conflicts – Narnia and Middle-earth would both be good places to get killed – but I wouldn’t mind visiting the worlds of Iain M. Banks’s ‘Culture.’ You’d just have a hard time getting me to leave.

I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can’t wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!

You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters’ faces to show they’re fake.

The monsters I thought about are those that don’t fit in – those who think differently from the majority, the people of exception, outsiders. I wish that society would place more importance and value on these kinds of monsters.

There’s an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

I don’t think people are monsters if they put ketchup on hot dogs, but I’m good without it. It’s a debate that I don’t get too hot-and-heavy with.

I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.

There aren’t that many monsters. It’s very hard to create a new monster.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

There’s so much art out there, and I’m happy to see people who are drawing monsters that are very simple designs.

Computer-generated monsters – people shoot them all day with videogames, you know, so kids aren’t going to be afraid of that. People are getting immune to scares.

We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

When I saw Kiss, and it was monsters with guitars, I thought this was the greatest thing that ever happened.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

With ‘River Monsters’, I am the investigator: here’s the crime scene, I talk to witnesses, I establish a suspects list, I narrow it down; here’s the prime suspect, I go and arrest the prime suspect – who often doesn’t want to come quietly.

Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They’re not devils. They’re not monsters. They’re human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.

If I could separate ‘The Originals’ from ‘The Vampire Diaries’ in a nutshell, I’d say that ‘The Vampire Diaries’ is more coming-of-age, and we’re more these monsters reveling in who they are and what they are.

My favorite Swamp Thing stories have always been about a man wrestling with monsters both internal and external.

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can’t remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

It’s hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.

I love writing about monsters and food.

When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was… an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.

Kids in Spandex battling rubber monsters? It sounds beautiful. It does.

I’m less of a ‘Star Wars’ fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?

‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ is one of my favorite movies, and I laugh all the time, and I cry during the one funeral. But I’ll say that ‘Monsters, Inc.’ is a movie that really gets me super-emotional. Especially the ending.

When I was a kid, going to Universal Studios, which was all I wanted to do, all the time, there was a show that was all the monsters, and I loved that show. I was obsessed with Dracula. I was obsessed with Frankenstein. I was obsessed with the Wolfman.

It’s technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It’s an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these ‘Transformers’ monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.

Once you start putting in political subtext, it does create intellectually challenging science-fiction, but with ‘Pacific Rim,’ I always thought it would be a shame if kids couldn’t go see this movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters because it seemed to have a political point of view.

‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn’t have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it’s such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it’s a beautiful story.

‘Ghost Adventures,’ ‘Mountain Monsters,’ weird alien UFO shows like ‘Ancient Aliens.’ The people who are self-appointed experts in these fields are really a series of national treasures.

Isn’t it crazy to think that we’ve explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of stuff.

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

‘Monsters,’ everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We’re always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They’re always at the heart of the story.

Monsters don’t scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it’s a great medium for horror.

Mike Mignola’s ‘Hellboy’ was influenced by Lovecraft big time. He wanted to make his monsters Lovecraftian. But I think many other films have been influenced by Lovecraft – like ‘Alien,’ which is almost an outer-space version of ‘At The Mountains Of Madness.’

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

I seem to be the most wordy when it comes to monsters because I’m a bit of a monster freak.

Country was about character. Country’s changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

The first ‘Monsters, Inc.’ represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

Things like engine technology used to be hugely restrictive. You couldn’t have more than one baddie on screen, you couldn’t have more than three arrows firing at once. Now, you can say, ‘I want 20 monsters, and 30 weapons,’ and there isn’t a technical string attached.

I love monsters.

You don’t really want to talk about ‘Duke’ in terms of, how many levels are there, how many guns does it have, how many monsters… It’s got everything it needs in terms of that, but it’s always been about the experience.

The aliens from ‘Attack the Block’ – I thought they were some of the most unique and creative movie monsters I had ever seen. From the jet-black hair to the neon blue teeth.

There’s monsters in all of us, but there’s also vulnerability.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream – or a nightmare.

As women, many of us have internalised our lives as a prolonged version of boot camp, a sort of Darwinian call to toughen up or perish. As young women, we are terrified that men we consider our mentors can turn out to be monsters.

I remember I used to watch ‘Buffy,’ and I’d be like, ‘Ah man, I would kill to be on ‘Buffy,’ to be part of that little crime-solving team fighting demons and monsters.’