Boris Karloff Quotes

It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

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• I don't miss acting at all.

  

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• Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

  

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• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

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• My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

  

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• If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

  

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• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

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• I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.

  

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• I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

  

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• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  

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• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

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• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

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• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

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• Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

  

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• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  

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• Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

  

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• In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

  

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• When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

  

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• The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me-and to me it seems chash, meaning correct-that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.

  

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• I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

  

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• Okay, I’m going to go –- now, the one thing I’m going to do is I’m going to go boy, girl, boy, girl to make sure that it’s fair, because one thing I didn’t say in my initial speech is societies that are most successful also treat their women and girls with respect. Otherwise, they won’t be successful.

  

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• I don't think central banks are going to give up fiat currency anytime in my lifetime.

  

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• We should roll back Common Core.

  

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• It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

  

  Boris Karloff
  • Boy
  • Films
  • Horror