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“What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night.”

Thinking Knows Night Cities Media Products Terrible Makers Halloween Candy Mayors

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“If you are an adult, and you are planning to dress up on Halloween... don't. I will find you. I will hurt you.”

Ifs Humor Funny Hurt Adults Dresses Planning Halloween

Author:Lewis Black

“Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it's different when I open the door the kids hand me candy.”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“Halloween has always been fascinating to me from a very young age. I think any actor would be fascinated by Halloween because it's one of the only holidays that advocates dressing up in makeup and costumes and transforming oneself.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.”

“Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.”

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Author:Michael Almereyda

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”

Art Artist Imagination Monsters Bows Halloween

Author:Richard Wright

“Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.”

Evil Horror Ancient Theme Hiding Halloween Happy Halloween

Author:John Carpenter

“I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.”

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Author:John Carpenter

“In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.”

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Author:John Carpenter

“Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.”

Maps Halloween Very Sad

Author:John Carpenter

“Define the space horizontally rather than vertically in movie widescreen, 2.35:1 just having that rectangular shape and when you think of great horror movies like Halloween and Jaws that just really exploit the space so well and I just think we would have so many more opportunities in creating suspense and shocks.”

Thinking Wells Opportunity Space Horror Shapes Creating Suspense Shock Halloween Exploits

Author:David Kirschner

“In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.”

Ifs Way Kind Easier Dresses Halloween Costumes

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”

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Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.”

Years Voters Halloween

Author:Martha Plimpton

“Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was frustrated with the same old stupid sound effects tape we would play, which ends with the theme from 'Ghostbusters' and 'Monster Mash'. I told her that Halloween is way too cool a holiday to suffer through this every year.”

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Author:Dee Snider

“I take the palette with me, but I have a lot of makeup. I was a makeup artist when I was younger, but I'm not that good compared with my makeup artist, so I keep things pretty simple. I explore a lot with pink and nude lipsticks, but I love red lipsticks. I love a line and a lash and a brow. So I don't need a lot, but I have a lot. It's all there just in case - for Halloween or whatever.”

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Author:Gwen Stefani

“When it comes to romance, I'm really simple. I am really a 'dinner and a movie' type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I'm like a kid at Halloween.”

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Author:Sasha Grey

“You could hollow out a big pumpkin and wear it on your head for the entire week of your birthday. This will allow you to get in touch with your Halloween emotions.”

Bigs Emotion Week Halloween Hollow Pumpkin

Author:Jade Puget

“Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.”

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Author:Greg Cipes

“On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!”

People Needs Faces Fields Mask Scare Halloween

Author:Tommy McDonald

“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”

Wells Easy Greatness Genius Horror Mountain Sacred Admire Hills Mediocrity Halloween Masterpiece Assembly Lofty Halloween And Friends

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.”

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Author:Andre Dirrell

“Candy corn. For Halloween that is my favorite candy, but it doesn't come around that often and I like that.”

My Favorite Halloween Candy Corn Candy Corn

Author:Daniel Jacobs

“I used to compete with my brother to see who could get the most Halloween candy, I remember doing that.”

Remember Used Brother My Brother Halloween Candy Halloween Candy

Author:Jermell Charlo

“My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble. Now that I'm more mature I realize that wasn't the right way to act, but it was the time of my life back then.”

“In Cuba they don't celebrate Halloween but my favorite moments have been trick-or-treating with my kids here in the U.S.: they really enjoy it.”

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Author:Erislandy Lara

“So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that makes Halloween really great. In that it is a holiday for everybody now. When I was a kid I felt like it was mostly for kids, maybe that's just the way it always is when you're a kid, but I think now more than ever it's for grown ups too. When I was a kid I don't think there were quite as many sexy adult costumes and we definitely didn't have all these Spirit Halloween stores that pop up every October.”

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Author:Michael Dougherty

“Everyone has gone trick or treating, everyone carves a jack o lantern with their parents. If you really look at the stories they sort of focus on what Halloween is like at different stages of your life.”

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Author:Michael Dougherty

“If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro.”

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Author:Imogen Poots

“Want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. If you want to do that, that's fine. At our shows, it's like a Halloween party, which isn't a bad thing. I'd like to see more of it actually.”

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Author:Twiggy

“When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances - My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale - he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That's a lesson.”

“I've seen lots of Halloween people dressed up like me and they'll send me pictures. And I found that very rewarding to know that I've reached anyone.”

People Knows Found Like Me Halloween Dressed Up

Author:Bray Wyatt

“Last Halloween I ran out of candy and I had to give the kids nicotine gum.”

Giving Kids Lasts Ran Halloween Candy Gum Nicotine

Author:David Letterman

“Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing.”

Giving Years Reason Stranger Dislike Halloween Day

Author:Demetri Martin

“Halloween's my favorite holiday because you don't have to spend it with your family.”

My Favorite Our Family Holiday Halloween

Author:Demetri Martin

“Technically my dog's naked most of the time. Except halloween, when I dress him up as Liza Minelli.”

Dog Dresses Naked Halloween My Dog

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I have two rules when you come to my house on Halloween. Wear a costume - 'cause if you've manned your door at your own house, you know how many kids will roll up, 14 years old with no costume and an attitude. My other rule: don't grab. Let me assess you and then design a candy situation for you.”

Ifs Knows Years Two Kids House Causes Attitude Situation Know How Doors Design Let Me Halloween Costumes Candy

Author:Greg Behrendt

“Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry.”

Made Industry Holiday Halloween Blades Razors

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust me. I was the only kid on the block egging houses with those big 'ole brown eggs. Like, you didn't have to be a detective to figure it out. 'Oh, I wonder who Tofuttied my mailbox. Is it the same evil genius who filled my bird bath with Rice Dream?”

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Author:Arj Barker

“In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.”

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Author:Dana Gould

“Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill!”

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Author:Dana Gould

“Do transvestites have to dress up for Halloween or do they pretty much qualify from the get-go?”

Dresses Halloween Transvestites

Author:Dana Gould

“Halloween is the only day I can dress up like a hot Latina woman with a beer belly.”

I Can Hot Dresses Beer Halloween Belly Latina Latina Women

Author:Felipe Esparza

“No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!”

Years Persons Matter Religious Walks No Matter What Halloween Happy Halloween

Author:Gary Gulman

“With Halloween coming this weekend, they say not one person in the country is planning to dress up as Governor Sarah Palin. You know why? ... The costume costs $150,000.”

Knows Persons Country Cost Dresses Planning Weekend Governors Halloween Costumes Palin

Author:Jay Leno

“Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?”

World Today Heard Products Radio Halloween Frozen Popular Music

Author:Billy Joel

“I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.”

Hate I Hate Halloween

Author:Rachel Zucker

“I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.”

Remember Halloween Dressings Dressing Up

Author:Rachel Zucker

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