Horror Quotes - Page 13

• In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.

  Woody Allen

  Goodbye, Girlfriend, War

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.

  Jane Goldman

  Ghost Stories, Horror Stories, Missing

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

  Marco Pirroni

  Fans, Film, Grew Up

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand

  A. C. Bradley

  Desire, Done, Deeds

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• In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound.  It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.

  Cindy Sherman

  Real, Humorous, Horror Stories

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• One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Memories, Thinking, Remember

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Korea, Satire, Shows

  "The Elephant in The Interview" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2014.

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• As much as I like watching horror films, I never thought I would act in them.

  Jessica Lucas

  Film, Horror Film

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.

  Richie Havens

  War, Phones, August

  "Commentary: Woodstock, world's biggest family reunion" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2009.

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• I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Feelings, Watches, Cinema

  "The divine lightness of being Ludivine Sagnier" by Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2009.

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• I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

  Gemma Chan

  Genre, Enjoy, Rational

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• The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, War

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• I'm a big fan of horror, personally.

  Annie Parisse

  Fans, Bigs

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• Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

  Dawn French

  Play, Theatre, Saws

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• With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach

  Want, Anticipate

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• There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Writing, People, Community

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2009.

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• I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Growing Up, Watches, Nightmare

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• Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

  Aaron Stanford

  Icons, Film, Horror Film

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• Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

  Andrew Pyper

  Contact, Provoking, Humans

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• A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Eye, Heart

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.160, Random House

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• I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

  Karen Russell

  Stuff, Sci Fi, Anthology

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• I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and its funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script had images in it that I liked.

  Tim Burton

  Done, Scripts, Kind

  Tim Burton (2008). “Burton on Burton”, p.255, Faber & Faber

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• In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

  Ernest Cline

  Lonely, Lying, Evil

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.74, Random House

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• Whether it's Mrs Dalloway's lost love or Thérèse Raquin's burgeoning horror, The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped or winced at, or loudly urged the protagonists through, and it does not relent. . . . The Paying Guests is the apotheosis of [Waters'] talent; at least for now. I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it. Her next will probably be even better. Until then, read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep.

  Charlotte Mendelson

  Lost Love, Water, Next

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• Whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear. A favorable situation can become dangerous. Deep down we know that life is insecure and precarious. However, if we do trust, the shiver carries with it a philosophical optimism: Life, with all its traps and horrors,  is good The bet is implicit in trust itself. If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value - like money, if it were suddenly limitless, or sunshine, if there were always fine weather, or life, if we were to live forever

  Piero Ferrucci

  Philosophical, Sunshine, Insecure

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