Horror Quotes
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When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes
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Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Henry Anatole Grunwald
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Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
Christopher Eccleston
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I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontations. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you`re making a horror film doesn`t mean you can`t make an artful film.
David Cronenberg
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I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontations. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you`re making a horror film doesn`t mean you can`t make an artful film.
David Cronenberg
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[on The Omen (1976)]: I never saw it as a horror movie.
David Warner
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I hate being asked to discuss those dreadful horror pictures I made the mistake of starring in. They were all just so disappointing to me, I really had high expectations for some of them. I thought that William Castle and I did our best on Strait-Jacket (...
Joan Crawford
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Horror films don`t create fear. They release it.
Wes Craven
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Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
Dario Argento
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I think the first Urban Legend is amazing. But they were a part of a horror evolution that began with Scream and ended with Scary Movie. I think we`ve begun a new phase, that is more evocative of 70s horror. The films that work today feel more immediate. ...
Jeff Wadlow
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I think the first Urban Legend is amazing. But they were a part of a horror evolution that began with Scream and ended with Scary Movie. I think we`ve begun a new phase, that is more evocative of 70s horror. The films that work today feel more immediate. ...
Jeff Wadlow
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Certainly the deepest horror, as far as I`m concerned, is what happens to your body at your own hands and others.
Wes Craven
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(Speaking to a crowd at a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" convention) "It`s so comforting to know that there are so many people in this world sicker than I am."
Tim Curry
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If you look at a classic horror movie like `The Exorcist,` part of what makes it so scary is that it feels so damn real. If you add a layer of too much hysterical, theatrical reality, then audiences take it less seriously. But if you play it for absolute ...
Frank Darabont
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If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film.
Peter Cushing
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You can`t seem to have any sort of inhibition. Or shame. Or absolute horror at your own physical presence. I know I`m not a woman`s fantasy man; I don`t have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that`s kind of a relief in a way.
Steve Carell
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I can`t stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.
Martin McDonagh
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Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn`t like the word "horror". They, like I, went for the French description: "the theatre of the fantastique".
Christopher Lee
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I hope positively. One thing about the show was it was never categorized. It was drama, comedy, action, horror, all of those things combined. And I just want people to remember it as a fabulous run, a fabulous seven years. - how she would like "Buffy the ...
Sarah Gellar
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I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don`t think that actors get to do much in them. They`re usually just reacting.
Julia Stiles
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You know, I`ve been so incredibly lucky. One hears so many horror stories from actresses who test for role after role and never get anything. I`ve been working steadily for more years than I care to count. I definitely consider myself to be one of the luc...
Lee Meriwether
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In retrospect, it`s usually pretty easy to look at horror movies and see the influences of the time. And I think right now, with the post-9-11 world and Iraq, creative people are almost being goaded to look at things in the strongest way possible. If you ...
Wes Craven
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They scare the crap out of me. This one... When I read the script and then I waited for the audition, I didn`t sleep at all. [about Horror Movies]
Sandra McCoy
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In many horror movies from the past, the women have always just been sex objects, there only to look pretty and get murdered. But my character is the leader and the strongest person in the group. It`s exciting; it`s like an action movie. It`s a very stron...
Monica Keena
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I grew up watching sci-fi and monster movies like I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) and all those creepy old Vincent Price horror movies. They made a huge impression on me and I think that`s what Independence Day (1996) is going to do for a whole generation...
Jeff Goldblum
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At every step of the way wanted to be careful to make sure that what they thought worked in Japanese horror got translated into this. [Taka and Shimizu] didn`t want to have solid explanations for everything. That was the challenge, to somehow make it acce...
Sam Raimi
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Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I`d love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
Luis Bunuel
