Karloff's 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 always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

Tom Waits

#3. I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

Joseph Gatt

#4. Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"

Zoe Kravitz

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

Christopher Lee

#6. If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all

Yogi Bhajan

#7. I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget.

Guy Lafleur

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

Gene Simmons

#9. You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

Benicio Del Toro

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

Boris Karloff

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

Boris Karloff

#12. If ever there was a boy in love, sweet pea, it's Joe Fontaine.

Jandy Nelson

#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. For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.

Charles Dickens

#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. Wheatyard came through as a storm, sudden and jarring, then gone not long after.

Peter Anderson

#22. Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

Lauren Oliver

#23. It all turns on affection now," said Margaret. "Affection. Don't you see?... And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in your notebook, Mr. Mansbridge. It's a useful formula.

E. M. Forster