Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying.

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.

I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

Lincoln could be on the moon. He's still Lincoln.

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.

Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.

Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Priceless is economic illusion.Costless is an economical trick.

Believe it or not, I say my prayers in the morning and in the evening.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives.

Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.