Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.

But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.

Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!

With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves.

I don't do anything for Halloween. I carry Halloween inside of me.

I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.

Hellboy was entirely the comic I wish someone much more talented than I was doing, because I would have been a huge fan of that comic. But nobody was doing it, so it fell to me to do it.

No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.

I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.

There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.

It is better to know so much about a few but important things, than to know so little about life, and much about trivial things.

Gracious is the giver who can host and also be a stranger at the door.

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.