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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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.' -- Clive Owen
The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does. -- Ethan Embry
Scary movies scare me. The Exorcist is really scary. -- John Molina, Jr.
The Exorcist has been a very interesting cross to bear. -- Linda Blair
I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done -- Mercedes McCambridge
I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done. -- Mercedes McCambridge
I don't see scary movies. I've never seen 'The Exorcist' or 'Jaws'. -- Julianna Margulies
'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects. -- Frank Darabont
The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects. -- Frank Darabont
I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me. -- Linda Blair
The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil. -- M. Night Shyamalan
I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies. -- Katie Featherston
It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor. -- Linda Blair
I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened. -- Dan Brown
Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that. -- Katharine Isabelle
After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older. -- Oren Peli
I think the film you hear about the most is 'The Exorcist.' When people come up to me and say, 'Oh, you scared me!' I was the good guy in that film! -- Max von Sydow
When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for 'The Exorcist' interview. -- Linda Blair
For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up? -- Linda Blair
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
When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real. -- Matt Reeves
I first heard music while in the womb. My mom tells me she played Tubular Bells with the headphones against her stomach all the time. A bit disturbing as I believe that is the theme to The Exorcist. Maybe she thought she was having Satan's baby. -- Venetian Snares
You. Me. Exorcist. -Bones -- Jeaniene Frost
Twist my Body like the Exorcist... -- Foxy Brown
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
The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult. -- Fede Alvarez
I like old school horror movies like Exorcist. I always loved scaring myself and I don't know at all what that's about. -- Jamie Campbell Bower
I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist. -- William Friedkin
Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me. -- Emmanuelle Vaugier
Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me. -- Emmanuelle Vaugier
I feel very lucky to be part of this amazing show [Exorcist] with such an amazing cast of actors, with a really talented writer behind it all. -- Alfonso Herrera
The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years. -- Keegan Allen
[Exorcist ] is given all of us a great opportunity to show something new on network TV, in terms of the quality of it. It feels much bigger than a network show. -- Alfonso Herrera
I've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?" The answer is you don't. But that doesn't mean you can't make something that is original and interesting. -- Eli Roth
When you think of the Exorcist, you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real. -- Matt Reeves
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
In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head. -- William Friedkin
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
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
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
I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's 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
Of course The Exorcist changed my entire life. I don't think there are very many people that will have the experience of sitting in this room, doing a job, and the next thing you know you've been on every television camera around the world, and people are they're frightened of you. -- Linda Blair
The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep. -- Odette Annable
I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film. -- Gabriel Mann
The only thing I can say is that people requested,when The Exorcist it going to be on the big screen? People want it on the big screen and they want to see the footage. I think it's going to do very well. I think it will please people, and the fact that they added the new sound. -- Linda Blair
I haven't seen 'The Exorcist,' but I've seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don't actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don't know what it is, but even though it's quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I've ever seen in my life. -- Kodi Smit-McPhee
With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it. -- William Friedkin
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
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
Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again. -- Max von Sydow

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