What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

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.

Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.