To make a really effective monster you need to begin with a good man and tell him lies.

The Green Monster is not a myth. It lives, it breathes, it sleeps, and it will eat you.

That’s why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism – the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales

It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us

Throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I’m so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.” [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

I always wanted my alien to be a very beautiful thing, something aesthetic. A monster isn’t just something disgusting; it can have a kind of beauty.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.

Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster’; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different.

Oh, monsters are scared, said Lettie. That’s why they’re monsters.

I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth. And all because they’re Jews

In the land of gods and monsters, I was an angel.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated needs but to be seen

I think Bigfoot is blurry, that’s the problem. It’s not the photographer’s fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that’s extra scary to me. There’s a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside.

The money turned me into a monster.