Exorcist Quotes

• I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil.

  Keanu Reeves

  Devil, Want, Practicals

  "Keanu Reeves trained with an exorcist". www.today.com. February 5, 2005.

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• The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

  William Peter Blatty

  Powerful, Liars, Lying

  William Peter Blatty (2015). “William Peter Blatty on "The Exorcist": From Novel to Screen”, p.355, Macmillan

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• The power of Christ compels you!

  Max von Sydow

  Christ

  "Fictional character: Father Merrin , Father Karras". "The Exorcist", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Thinking, Done, Hardest

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• I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Done, Aliens, Horror

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• From an early age I loved horror movies. I read books about horror, cops, firemen and military. Over the course of the years I started to see that there's a reality to this. The first movie I was really conscious of seeing was THE EXORCIST and I don't know if any of you have seen that but it scared the sh*t out of me. It really frightened me.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Military, Book, Reality

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

  Linda Blair

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

  William Peter Blatty

  Memories, Writing, Careers

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

  Jason Patric

  Thinking, Games, Usa

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• I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

  William Peter Blatty

  Police, Stories, Detectives

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Awards, Oscars, Categories

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• The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.

  Ethan Embry

  Doe, Omen

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• I love Paranormal Activity and The Exorcist. The Shining is a great one too, but theres not a lot that scares me. Maybe its because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

  Lucy Hale

  Shining, Scare, Sides

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• I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.

  Linda Blair

  Way, Sense Of Humor, Know How

  "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].

  Geena Davis

  Knows

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.

  Linda Blair

  Children, Thinking, Would Be

  "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I just don't really get to watch a lot of movies, like recently at least I haven't been able to but I did watch The Exorcist for the first time ever, recently, and it didn't scare me like I thought it was gonna scare me.

  Melanie Martinez

  Scare, Watches, Able

  Interview with Jamie Taylor, concertaddicts.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, School

  "James Patterson interview with longtime editor Michael Pietsch". Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.usatoday.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Writing, Demon

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• Winston Gallagher!" I said, recognizing the first ghost I'de met. Then my eyes narrowed & I covered my hand in front of my crotch as I saw Winstons gaze fasten there next. "Don't even think about poltergeisting my panties again". "This is the sod? Come here you scurvy little--" "Bones don't!" I interrupted. He stopped, giving a last glare to him while mouthing YOU. ME. EXORCIST. before returning to my side.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a viewer I think of the original Haunting and the Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, the Sixth Sense, the Others. These movies are not over the top at all, they are movies that rely on good story telling, good acting, good premise, good exposition and I want to stay true to that in future projects.

  Oren Peli

  Baby, Thinking, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'

  Clive Owen

  Fans, Huge

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• I very much believe in things unseen, both of positive and destructive energy, and I have never seen The Exorcist through from start to finish. I find it too realistic, frankly, and too disturbing for me. I absolutely believe in spiritual warfare and have experienced it in my life. So I respect Mr. Friedkin's extraordinary success with that, but it's not a picture I'll ever see.

  Ashley Judd

  Spiritual, Believe, Unseen

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• I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

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• To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is The Exorcist. It still scares the living hell out of me, and it’s because of the fantasy element. It’s the exorcism. It’s the Devil. It’s not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don’t do it for me, and I don’t call them horror.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Cutting, Guy, House

  "In the Halloween Queen’s Court: A Conversation with Elvira, aka Cassandra Peterson". Interview with Dan Lybarger, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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