Karloff Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'd have given you my entire heart if you'd only asked, but it's not yours now. It's not yours.

Kate McCarthy

#3. Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons.

Amber Dawn

#4. I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

Alec Baldwin

#5. I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

Joe Manchin

#6. My lord," came Daisy's anxious voice, delaying him briefly. "You will find her, won't you?" "Yes," he said without hesitation. "And then I'm going to strangle her.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. I made three films with Boris Karloff. He was absolutely wonderful.

Christopher Lee

#8. What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

C.S. Lewis

#9. I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

Gene Simmons

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

Boris Karloff

#11. Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

C.S. Lewis

#12. The average introduction to almost any book is somewhat of a bore

Boris Karloff

#13. Certainly I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.

Boris Karloff

#14. The monster was the best friend I ever had.

Boris Karloff

#15. My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

Boris Karloff

#16. When I was nine I played the Demon King in Cinderella and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

Boris Karloff

#17. All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

Lon Chaney Jr.

#18. I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

Steve Zahn

#19. I'm 48, and I have been in love with vampires since I was six. I was born in 1962, so I've been through three or four waves of vampires. When I was growing up, we had vampire shows and movies. We were still dealing with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and the old Christopher Lee vampires.

Denis O'Hare

#20. 'Son of Frankenstein' is never talked about in the same tone as James Whale's 1931 'Frankenstein.' But it should be. It was Boris Karloff's last appearance in the Frankenstein series and stars Donnie Dunagan, then a child actor.

Mark Gatiss

#21. Will Smith is a funny person, a very likable person, but at the same time he can be serious and really handle his business. I'll stay away from talking about his rapping abilities, though.

Colin Kaepernick

#22. The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.

Richard Alley

#23. Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences.

Ricardo Antonio Chavira