Eva Marie Saint Quotes

I watched 'Psycho' a million times.

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

I'm scared of scary movies.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

I can't even watch horror movies - I have to turn the music down!

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Horror movies can be - I don't wanna say not real, but so over-the-top: you can get scared 'cos things are loud and in-your-face, but these are real emotions that I'm using.

One of my favorite films is 'Psycho,' which I saw when I was 12.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.

The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an emotional release.

There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually does the opposite. The best scares come from a desire to see the character overcome what they're dealing with in the scene. If you care about the character you'll care about the scare.

I remember being scared to death of horror movies as a kid. Sometimes, I missed the whole movie because I was so scared and couldn't look.

No matter where I go, I always feel unwanted eyes following me. It's a dirty world out there.

When 'Psycho' came out back in 1960, it was seen as an abomination and as this really gory thing. We all watch 'Psycho' today, of course, and think it's so tame since there's no blood or any real gore in it. But for the standards of the day when it was released, it was extreme.

We all are scared of bad things… So when you are watching a film, you see your fears on the screen.

I have not seen 'It' because I don't like horror movies. I don't mess with clowns or demons.

I started listening to 'Serial' but remember being home alone and the electricity went - I don't think I've ever been more scared!

I never think I'm safe. I always live in fear I will lose.

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.