Serial Killer Quotes

• If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people.

  Brendon Urie

  People, Killers, Chainsaw

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• The more I looked at people, the more I hated them.

  Charles Starkweather

  Hate, People, Criminals

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• One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

  James Purefoy

  Believe, Reality, Research

  Source: collider.com

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• The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

  Jacque Fresco

  Differences, Saint, Killers

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• I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.

  Thomas Harris

  Sheep, Understanding, Eating

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• If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.

  Zach Braff

  Actors, Killers, Damn

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• I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Writing, People, Stuff

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• I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading a lot of memoirs of guards in holocausts and serial killers. I like to understand why people do bad things.

  Ira Sachs

  Reading, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial killer believes in what they're doing. I play it subjectively.

  James Purefoy

  Believe, Play, Monsters

  Source: collider.com

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• So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hug, Killers, Embrace

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Class, Tree, Would Be

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When I watched Lifetime original movies, it took me a day or two to get over the idea that the cute boy next door is actually a serial killer.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Cute, Boys, Doors

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.

  David Fincher

  Running, Night, Doors

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher". Interview with Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2007.

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• I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

  Lev Grossman

  Doubt, Killers, Psychopath

  "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

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• And the bottom line is we are who we are-we look a certain way, we talk a certain way, we walk a certain way. I strut because I’m a supermodel, and sometimes I gallop for fun. When we learn to accept that, other people learn to accept us. So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fun, People, Hug

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

  Erik Larson

  Inspiration, Devil, Killers

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• For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Self, Imagination

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• I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer.

  Richard Ingrams

  Crazy, Years, Killers

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