No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.

It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

To me faith means not worrying.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.

Stop thanking god for your parking spot. He had nothing to do with it, and if he did, I want nothing to do with him.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.