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Famous Halloween Costume Quotes

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them. — Tracy Chapman

In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween! — Jack Prelutsky

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. — River Phoenix

Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. … We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout. — Sean Hannity

Dare to wear the foolish clown face. — Frank Sinatra

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. — Mason Cooley

I've seen lots of Halloween people dressed up like me and they'll send me pictures. And I found that very rewarding to know that I've reached anyone. — Bray Wyatt

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up. — Vincent Cassel

By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made. — Kate Middleton

I'm going to scare a lot of kids Thursday night. — Jon Gruden

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up. — Glenn Frey

You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August. — David Carson

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me. — Danny Elfman

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am. — Paul Stanley

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!" — Dexter Kozen

Short Halloween Costume Quotes

  • I was the Pink Pansy or whatever, wearing this crazy thing. — Kel Mitchell
  • Strawberry Shortcake called, she wants her outfit back — Ilona Andrews
  • The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs. — Amelia Bloomer
  • People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding. — Bray Wyatt
  • I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume. — Kelly Hu
  • I haven't seen this many men dressed in women's clothing since my bachelor party — Bruce Willis
  • Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar. — J. Cole
  • Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator. — Simon Cowell
  • I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll. — Vanna White
  • I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart. — Stephen Colbert

Halloween Costume Image Quotes

Halloween costume quote We are all naked apes beneath the wold variety of our adopted costumes.
We are all naked apes beneath the wold variety of our adopted costumes.

Halloween Quotes

I must go in, the fog is rising. - Emily Dickinson

I must go in, the fog is rising. — Emily Dickinson

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! - William Shakespeare

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. — Emily Dickinson

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come. — William Shakespeare

I was handing out $10,000 on Halloween and one kid tried to trade the $10k for candy. — MrBeast

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle. — Stephen King

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin! — Charles M. Schulz

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you? — Jerry Smith

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore! — Edgar Allan Poe

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football. — Nick Ferguson

Halloween Party Quotes

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. — Twiggy

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson. — January Jones

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light. — Nick Gordon

'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight. — Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. — Steve Almond

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake. — Carolyn Wells

On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park. — Nick Gordon

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat. — Nick Gordon

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party. — Eddie Kaye Thomas

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way. — John Kendrick Bangs

Costume Quotes

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. — Sam Walton

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. - Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. — Zig Ziglar

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman. — Kate Adie

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance — Amelia Bloomer

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course. — Terence Fisher

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person. — Edith Head

Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear. — James Spader

The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain. — Peter Murphy

Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement. — Dorothy Lamour

Nudge, nudge. Snap, snap. Grin, grin. Wink, wink, say no more? Could be, could be taken on holiday. Could be yes - swimming costumes. Know what I mean. Candid photography. Know what I mean, nudge nudge. — Graham Chapman

Christian Halloween Quotes

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee. — Edward De Bono

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday. — Gwen Stefani

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. — Charles S. Swartz

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. — Amity Shlaes

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things. — Dee Snider

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. — James M. Barrie

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. — John Milton

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night! — Elizabeth Chase Allen

Halloween Night Quotes

When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth. — George A. Romero

Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. — Elizabeth Kim

I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night. — Loreena McKennitt

There is something haunting in the light of the moon. — Joseph Conrad

A candy coloured clown they call the sandman Tiptoes into my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper; "Go to sleep, everything is alright" — Roy Orbison

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! — Bram Stoker

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; In the wan moon's silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play. — Joel Benton

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea — Richard Brautigan

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — Sayings

I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again. — M. R. James

Halloween Love Quotes

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. — Erin Morgenstern

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too. — Gwen Stefani

I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn't that great? — Joel McHale

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. — Robert Breault

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch. — Robert Breault

A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en! — Jerry Smith

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. — William Shakespeare

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. — Douglas Coupland

If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too. — Cassandra Peterson

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies. — Carrie Underwood

Halloween Candy Quotes

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do. I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat." — Rita Rudner

In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice. — Dana Gould

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. — Conan O'Brien

Halloween revolves around delicious candy, excessive alcohol, and horny women dressed as sluts. This also describes my vision of Heaven. — Tucker Max

My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it. — Jay Leno

Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, "White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we? — Jimmy Fallon

According to USA Today, 74 percent of Americans plan to hand out candy this Halloween. Although President Obama thinks it should be just the top 1 percent. — Jay Leno

In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy. It is no longer safe to let your child eat treats that come from strangers. — Ann Landers

And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween. — Rosecrans Baldwin

Never take candy from strangers. — Rita Rudner

Scary Halloween Quotes

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. — Emily Luchetti

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it. — R. L. Stine

Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween. — Ron Kuby

Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new. — Nick Gordon

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there. — Anne Mccaffrey

Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary. — Emanuel Ax

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. — Lucretius

My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down. — Chris Zylka

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row. — Catherine Hardwicke

Happy Halloween Quotes

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym. — Stephen King

The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead. — Roger Corman

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy. — Henry C. Link

No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween! — Gary Gulman

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween. — Danny Elfman

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. — Clive Barker

Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without The wild winds shout, But no, it is they - it is they. — Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character. — Jane Badler

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween. — Keith Donohue

I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat. — Dave Barry

Spooky Halloween Quotes

Make the world better. — Lucy Stone

I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying. — Screamin' Jay Hawkins

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll." — Robert Louis Stevenson

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do! — Groucho Marx

He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat. — Selena

I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise... He did the mash He did the monster mash The monster mash It was a graveyard smash. — Bobby Pickett

Use your head; cut off theirs. — Max Brooks

He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again. — Richard O'Brien

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear. — William Shakespeare

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More Halloween Costume Quotes

I don't think I ever said, "I want to be an actress." But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern. — Jenny McCarthy

We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips. — Ann Hood

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. — Doug Coupland

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. — W. Edwards Deming

I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate - I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday. — Amy Poehler

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?' — Drew Carey

Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn't it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with. — Jerry Seinfeld

I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God. — Joss Whedon

We post photos of the Halloween costumes and the mustaches made of cupcake frosting. We don't record the tantrums?and that's as it should be. But we shouldn't mistake that for reality. It's stagecraft. — Libby Copeland

I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as 'Slutty Madeleine Albright.' — Conan O'Brien

I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer. — Ken Fox

I don't do costumes, I don't do sh_t like that. I love Halloween as a concept, but do I actually go out and do things? No. Trick or treating? Pain in the ass. Hate answering the door all night long. I do love fall, which is bad because I live in Los Angeles. — Mike Mignola

There's going to be a Halloween costume [of lavash from Sausage Party]. The whole thing is just so ridiculous. It's nice. It's silly, and it's surreal. — David Krumholtz

With Halloween coming this weekend, they say not one person in the country is planning to dress up as Governor Sarah Palin. You know why? ... The costume costs $150,000. — Jay Leno

Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill! — Dana Gould

I have two rules when you come to my house on Halloween. Wear a costume - 'cause if you've manned your door at your own house, you know how many kids will roll up, 14 years old with no costume and an attitude. My other rule: don't grab. Let me assess you and then design a candy situation for you. — Greg Behrendt

I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke. — Andre Dirrell

In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time. — Chuck Klosterman

Halloween has always been fascinating to me from a very young age. I think any actor would be fascinated by Halloween because it's one of the only holidays that advocates dressing up in makeup and costumes and transforming oneself. — Nicolas Cage

Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist. — Jay Leno

Little brats yellin 'Trick or Treat' all through my screen door, When y'all should be at home sleep, Instead of at my front porch 15 deep. The jack o' lantern came in handy... I can turn my porch light out like I ain't got no candy. But ain't that somethin? You buy a Halloween costume and a pumpkin, Almost gave your children a heart attack. It's a tradition, but who the hell started that? — Kam

My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old. — Matthew Broderick

I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes. — Audrina Patridge

...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween. — E. L. Konigsburg

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs. — Douglas Coupland

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