Quotes About Lon Chaney

#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. You see, fear is a hunter. It encircles us when we are unarmed and least expect it. And then we are forced to make decisions.

Ruta Sepetys

#3. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Margaret Fuller

#4. She wasn't born for this kind of life. You have to be born for this like you have to be born a butcher or a barber, I guess. Wouldn't anybody be either of them just for money or fun.

William Faulkner

#5. I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

Elliott Gould

#6. The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

#7. 'Maze Runner' is about a group of teens that live inside this giant maze. And outside the maze are these creatures that come out at night. The centerpiece of the maze where we stay is called the Glades, and we call ourselves the Gladers.

Jacob Latimore

#8. Nothing is more natural to me than horror.

Lon Chaney Jr.

#9. It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

David Sedaris

#10. Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

Desmond Tutu

#11. You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.

Paul Tsongas

#12. Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces, I'll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I'll do whatever I need to do to create a character.

Nicolas Cage

#13. God will not only love you if you don't get better; he will teach you that getting better isn't the issue. His love is the issue.

Steve Brown

#14. As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

Wei Wu Wei

#15. 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.

#16. If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.

Sheri Fink

#17. You have to be resilient.

Gabrielle Union