Scaring Quotes

I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.

(on the film Poltergeist (1982)): Poltergeist is the darker side of my nature, it`s me when I was scaring my younger sisters half to death. In Poltergeist, I wanted to terrify and I also wanted to amuse - I tried to mix the laughs and screams together.

With film, if you get a million people to see your movie on the first weekend, you`ve made about $5 million. That basically will not end up on the top-10 chart. You have to get 10 million people on the first weekend. And if you don`t do it in two days, you`re basically out of the theaters and into the DVD market. There`s just an ecology there. If you`re a mouse, don`t expect to kill a lion, because it ain`t gonna happen. If you want to have that kind of power, it`s better to be a lion, because the mice are fine - you can have a life and everything - but the lions are the ones out there prowling and scaring the hell out of everybody.

(Asked about What what she wants for her career) - I just want to continue being able to get roles that scare me and make me better and I think I can only grow as an artist if I do things that are scaring me and making me uncomfortable because that`s the only place you`ll learn anything.

(on working with Alfred Hitchcock on "Psycho") Hitch relished scaring me. When we were making "Psycho," he experimented with the mother`s corpse, using me as his gauge. I would return from lunch, open the door to the dressing room and propped up in my chair would be this hideous monstrosity. The horror in my scream, registered on his Richter scale, decided which dummy he`d use as the Madame.

I have an almost seven year old... I think it`s essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge `cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.