Scary Quotes

• The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

  

  W. A. Criswell
  • Death
  • Free
  • Church

• We used to have a photo of me in full clown makeup taken when my son was 5. And when he was 17 or 18, he said, 'Yeah, that thing used to scare me. I hated that photo.' So it is scary; clowning is scary to people.

  

  Bill Irwin
  • People
  • Taken
  • Son

• For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.

  

  Ehren Kruger
  • Movie
  • Scary
  • Psychology

• 'Zone One' comes out of me trying to work through some of my ideas about why, for me personally, zombies are scary.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Why

• History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Science
  • Storms
  • Refused

• I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.

  

  Agyness Deyn
  • Life
  • World
  • Travel

• Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

  

  Jonathan Raban
  • Reality
  • Distance
  • Scary

• I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

  

  James Wan
  • Imagination
  • Scary

• I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.

  

  Carole Bouquet
  • Time
  • School
  • Friends

• It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Experience
  • Humanity
  • Scary

• I try to pull my inspirations from everyday life. If I came across a situation that is like, 'Oh, that's going to be scary, that's going to be frightening,' that's when I get inspired, and I put that into my films.

  

  James Wan
  • Life
  • Inspired
  • Everyday

• The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • People
  • Trying
  • Mistake

• We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.

  

  Robert L. Hymers Jr.
  • God
  • Men
  • Earth

• My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Movie
  • Scary
  • Halloween

• We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

  

  Meg Cabot
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Scary

• I think marriage is a scary concept. It's a scary concept for anybody. I'm not sure where I sit with that.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Marriage
  • Scary

• I saw the 'Wizard of Oz' recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That's how scary that movie was for me.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• Directing first film was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could...every day.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Work
  • Single
  • Responsibility

• You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Scary
  • Flying

• I hope my kids can experience the seasons and a climate that's sustainable. The idea that things are going to be so very different for them is slightly scary.

  

  David Harewood
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Kids

• France was always a little scary to me. I had the preconception that France was a bit hoity-toity.

  

  April Bloomfield
  • Scary

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