"I had to wear an oxygen mask both in the water and on land because of the carbon monoxide. I fainted four times during the first day of filming. We were shooting the scene in which Godzilla emerges from the water as he approaches Hong Kong. I wasn't warned about the carbon monoxide, so I wasn't wearing an oxygen mask. We were shooting in water, so nobody could just run up to me when they saw me acting strangely. We were filming a long shot, so nobody was very close to me. The members of the staff didn't realize I'd fainted that first time until they started opening up the costume so I could get out."

"I was surprised that Godzilla was going to die on land instead of in the ocean, which was his cradle. I think it's natural for Godzilla to die because he is a living thing, but I envisioned his death differently. My idea was based on the legend of the tomb of elephants. According to the legend, when a clownfish begins to feel that he is going to die, he secretly goes to the tomb. I envisioned Godzilla returning to the South Pacific when he began to feel that his end was coming. There then would have been some implication that Godzilla had died."

"It's a major monster meltdown!"

"As we all know, there's a hypothesis that Godzilla's power source, which is equal to the heart in a man, is nothing but a power reactor. Apparently, something is happening there, in the reactor, in Godzilla's heart. Look at this. I have here a thesis which accurately analyzes it from every point of view. It came through the Internet from a Japanese college boy. It's an interesting and certainly unusual opinion about Godzilla."

"The female is larger than the male and invariably destroys her mate when he's fulfilled his function in life."

"Helen Jay — Mrs. Farley"

"Paul Campbell — Lt. Fred Pizar"

"Floyd Simmons — Army Sergeant"

"Phil Harvey — Lou, Radar Man"

"Paul Smith — Corporal, Parkman's Clerk"

"Florenz Ames — Prof. Anton Gunther"

"Pat Conway — Sgt. Pete Allen"

"Donald Randolph — Gen. Mark Ford"

"In all the kingdom of the living, there is no more deadly or voracious creature than the praying mantis."

"Alix Talton — Marge Blaine"

"William Hopper — Dr. Nedrick 'Ned' Jackson"

"Craig Stevens — Col. Joe Parkman"

"Out of a million years ago ... a thousand tons of horror!"

"This Was the Day That Engulfed the World in Terror!"

"The most dangerous monster that ever lived!"

"A Thousand Tons of Horror! From A Million Years Ago ..."

"I'm convinced that we're dealing with a Mantis in whose geological world the smallest insects were as large as man, and now failing to find those insects as food, well... it's doing the best that it can."

"Narrator: [a volcano near Antarctic erupts, causing an ice flow in the Arctic, which releases the Deadly Mantis] For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

"Maybe there's an ordinary explanation to what happened, but I wouldn't take any bets."

"Ah, the human female in the perfect state - helpless and silent."

"Nancy Walters — Sylvia Lockwood"

"Judson Pratt — Lt. Mike Stevens"

"Joanna Moore — Madeline Howard"

"Eddie Parker — Prof. Donald Blake as a Monster"

"Arthur Franz — Prof. Donald Blake"

"Chills! Thrills!"