Top 585 Horror Quotes

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

With ‘Shameless,’ ‘Homeland’ and ‘American Horror Story,’ these are all shows that don’t follow a particular mold, and they are out-there. The acting is spectacular.

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can’t do anything about it… Then you understand the horror of war.

They have so many great horror movies made in the ’80s. I mean, the old-school horror is so good.

I’d love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

I’m not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I’m just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it’s science fiction, horror or really anything. I’m just drawn to quality. I don’t think ‘Darkness Falls’ is horror; there isn’t any gore by any stretch of the imagination.

I’ve always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

I guess the reason that I’m a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that’s why, for all of human history, we’ve been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place.

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed ‘Angel Heart,’ he’d heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, ‘I’m very scared of you. I’ve heard you’re a very bad boy.’

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up until the wee hours to watch ‘Outer Limits,’ ‘Night Gallery,’ ‘Twilight Zone,’ and ‘Star Trek.’ We lived to watch those reruns.

It feels fantastic to be a part of ‘Fear Files.’ I am having a great time shooting for the show as it is not just another horror or crime show.

With a horror movie, you don’t want to anticipate where things are going to go.

Of the big horror movies of the ’70s, you have ‘The Omen,’ ‘The Sentinel,’ ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ ‘The Stepford Wives,’ ‘Burnt Offerings’ – these are all romantic fatalist movies where there’s a sort of glimmer of hope… but darkness wins.

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.

I really liked the script of ‘Alone.’ I thought there were a lot unexpected things in the film, which I would want to watch as a viewer. I did not think like I was doing a horror film; I did not think in terms of genre. I decided on the basis of the script.

Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like ‘The Grudge’, I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you’re going to find in terms of craft. You can’t scare people if they see the seams.

Prison has a universal fascination. It’s a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

It’s easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the ‘Times’ might notice you.

The fear that you come to a show called ‘American Horror Story’ with is yours. That being said, I’m glad people are afraid, and I hope that I’m contributing to their fear. I’m really not afraid of my own darkness anymore. I’m not afraid of what I’m capable of.

When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.

I was a big ‘MAD Magazine’ fan when I was a kid, and I read a lot of horror comics – I illustrated as well.

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but ‘Cabin In The Woods’ cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

The Shining’ is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me.

I’m not sure whether I’ve been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: ‘You can’t rewind the movie. I’ve spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.’

If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there’s an immense amount of freedom within the genre.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

I just know I’m too much of a wuss for Stephen King’s books. I’m way too chicken to read horror.

I think female-centric films shouldn’t be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There’s no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

I cannot state enough how important post-production is for the success of a horror movie. You bring so much to it with the way you edit it, the way it is sound-designed, and the way the music works with it.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

Sometimes I feel I have no idea what I’m doing as an actor. I just did a tape for the TV remake of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ and I think it could be the worst thing I’ve ever done.

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or ‘outsideness’ without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

Having been aware of the Red Sox since the 1946 World Series, having been growled at by Ted Williams as a young reporter in 1960, having been present at the horror of 1986 and the comeback of 2004, I have seen the highs and lows of some other people’s favorite team.

Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can’t aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I’m in. I thought ‘Dead End’ had a great story; ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

I’d never thought of horror as being so challenging, but it is.

I’ve always been a fan of horror because I feel like it is one of the last genres where you need to see at a theatre, sharing in this profound experience of seeing it with a community of people.

I first went to ‘Rocky Horror’ when I was 14, and nothing was the same after that. For about two months afterwards, I would watch that movie in my bed every night.

Around 2008 when the writers’ strike happened, all my stuff was getting stuck in development, and I thought, ‘I’m going to try my hand at horror because I always loved it as a kid.’