Serial Killer Quotes

• The more I looked at people, the more I hated them.

  Charles Starkweather

  Hate, People, Criminals

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• If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people.

  Brendon Urie

  People, Killers, Chainsaw

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• I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.

  Thomas Harris

  Sheep, Understanding, Eating

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• One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

  James Purefoy

  Believe, Reality, Research

  Source: collider.com

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• I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

  Erik Larson

  Inspiration, Devil, Killers

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• The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

  Jacque Fresco

  Differences, Saint, Killers

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• If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.

  Zach Braff

  Actors, Killers, Damn

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• We all go a little mad sometimes.

  Joseph Stefano

  Mad, Littles, Sometimes

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Writing, People, Stuff

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• I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading a lot of memoirs of guards in holocausts and serial killers. I like to understand why people do bad things.

  Ira Sachs

  Reading, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial killer believes in what they're doing. I play it subjectively.

  James Purefoy

  Believe, Play, Monsters

  Source: collider.com

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• If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Class, Tree, Would Be

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Friends don't let friends get killed by serial killers

  Darynda Jones

  Killers, Serials

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Death and the Girl Next Door”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once...twice...sold to the drama queen at the corner.

  P. C. Cast

  Queens, Drama, Killers

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• So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hug, Killers, Embrace

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.

  David Fincher

  Running, Night, Doors

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher". Interview with Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2007.

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• When I watched Lifetime original movies, it took me a day or two to get over the idea that the cute boy next door is actually a serial killer.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Cute, Boys, Doors

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

  Lev Grossman

  Doubt, Killers, Psychopath

  "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

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