Dylan McDermott Quotes

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.

I like old school horror movies like Exorcist. I always loved scaring myself and I don't know at all what that's about.

I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

I grew up watching horror films from a very young age. My sister was never able to watch scary movies; I don't think she'll ever watch mine because she's just so bad at it. Its funny because I'm the complete opposite: I love to be scared. I love to have that fear before you go to bed, and you're like, 'Oh my God, please, nothing come out.'

It's so thrilling to be intimidated.

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.

I love horror. I love 'The Shining,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Halloween,' all those kinds of things. I love zombies, especially '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later,' where the zombies are going faster than the George Romero ones. I love being scared; there's something that's awesome about your heart rate going up like that.

It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.