Boris Karloff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The monster was the best friend I ever had.
-- Boris Karloff

#Friendship #Monsters
It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
-- Boris Karloff

#Movie #Boys #Ghouls
Certainly I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.
-- Boris Karloff

#Mean #Blessing #Actors
When I was nine I played the Demon King in Cinderella and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.
-- Boris Karloff

#Kings #Happy Life #Long
My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
-- Boris Karloff

#Wife #Taste #My Wife
When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.
-- Boris Karloff

#Kings #Happy Life #Long
Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.
-- Boris Karloff

#Mean #Blessing #Actors

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.
When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.
The monster London laugh at me.
The ego is a fascinating monster.
Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.
I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.
I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.

Boris Karloff famous quotes

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