"I used to laugh at the stories of women that got beat up for the hell of it. But the stories were true, Paul. Only this time, they got scared, they set the car on fire and rolled it down a hill. And when I came up, I wasn't pretty anymore."

"Lights, Camera, Murder!"

"If Stark Terror Were Ecstasy... living here would be sheer bliss!"

"Well, that's Hollywood for you, sweetheart. He's on the make. She's on the take."

"Miss Peters, as they say in horror movies, you will come to a bad end."

"Everybody thinks I'm dead, including myself."

"Vincent Price — Paul Toombes"

"Now I must play the final scene, the death of Dr Death!"

"Diana Dors — Maisie Psaltery"

"Joan Hickson — Mrs. Sprout"

"Renée Asherson — Mrs. Maxwell"

"Eric Sykes — Sgt. Dogge"

"Peter Cushing — Herbert Flay"

"Dennis Price — Hector Snipe"

"Milo O'Shea — Inspector Boot"

"Madeline Smith — Rosemary"

"Michael Hordern — George Maxwell"

"Robert Morley — Meredith Merridew"

"Coral Browne — Chloe Moon"

"Robert Coote — Oliver Larding"

"Robert Quarry — Oliver Quayle"

"Diana Rigg — Edwina Lionheart"

"Ian Hendry — Peregrine Devlin"

"Jack Hawkins — Solomon Psaltery"

"Harry Andrews — Trevor Dickman"

"It's curtains for his critics!"

"Vincent Price has reserved a seat for you in the "theatre of blood.""

"He gave his critics a bloody and violent taste of their own medicine!"

"Vincent Price — Edward Lionheart"

"Arthur Lowe — Horace Sprout"

"Now, let us see what that stupid cretin Mr. Meredith Merridew had to say about my Titus Andronicus. [reads] "Mr. Lionheart's rendering of the role can only be described as villainous. Laid between the delicately underplayed performances of Miss Lillywhite as Lavinia and Miss Mole as Tamora, one is irresistibly reminded of a ham sandwich." [pause] My reputation."

"So my performance of Richard III cast such a spell upon the audience that it put this reviewer into a "deep sleep from which he awoke much refreshed and relieved by the knowledge that he had been spared the ordeal of attending to the aging matinee idol's ranting and posturing." Well, we shall see if we cannot spur you to more rapt attention with today's performance. "Dive, thoughts, down to my soul. Here Clarence comes.""

"You begin to resent an actor if you always have to give him bad notices."

"[examining a note on a gift box] "I am sorry to miss the meeting, but my heart is with you. Dickman." [he opens it and it contains Dickman's bloody heart] It's him, all right. Only Lionheart would have the temerity to rewrite Shakespeare!"

"Look, Devlin, when two people have the same motive to murder and one of them is still alive, who would you arrest?"

"At your own risk"

"John Aquino - Detective Mackey"

"John McMartin - Lawrence Henry"

"Curt May - Donahue"

"John Lithgow - Burke"

"Dennis Franz - Manny Karp"

"Peter Boyden - Sam"

"Murder has a sound all of its own!"

"The Blow Out took them to the edge of terror . . . his questions took them way beyond."

"John Travolta - Jack Terry"

"Sam: Look, Jack, I didn't hire that girl for her scream. I hired her for her tits."