Scream became a horror sensation after its release in 1996 and now we’re coming up on the 7th installment of the franchise.
“What’s your favorite scary movie?” may be the most iconic one, but there have been a ton of great Scream quotes over the years.
Known for its meta-commentary on the horror genre, Scream is a classic slasher film. It manages to be satirical and terrifying at the same time and it does it perfectly.
Here are our favorite quotes from Scream and all of its sequels.
Best Scream Quotes
1. “Do you like scary movies?” – Ghostface
2. “If I’m right about this, I could save a man’s life. Do you know what that would do for my book sales?” – Gale Weathers
3. “I’m sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.” – Sidney Prescott
4. “Not in my movie.” – Sidney Prescott
5. “Movies don’t create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative!” – Billy Loomis.
6. “Never say “Who’s there?” Don’t you watch scary movies? It’s a death wish. You might as well come out to investigate a strange noise or something.” – Ghostface
7. “People treat me like I’m the anti-Christ of television journalism.” – Gale Weathers
8. “[What do you want?] To see what your insides look like.” – Ghostface
9. “There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie. For instance, number one, you can never have sex. Big no, no! Big no, no! Sex equals death, okay? Number two, you can never drink or do drugs. The sin factor! It’s a sin. It’s an extension of number one! And, number three, never, ever, ever under any circumstance say, ‘I’ll be right back’. Because you won’t be back.” – Randy
10. See, you push the laws and you end up [gone]. Okay, I’ll see you in the kitchen with a knife.” – Randy
11. “Please don’t kill me, Mr. Ghostface. I want to be in the sequel!” – Tatum Riley
12. “Don’t go there, Sid. You’re starting to sound like some Wes Carpenter flick or something. Don’t freak yourself out, okay? We’ve got a long night ahead of us.” – Tatum
Best Scream 2 Quotes
13. [from the trailer] “The way I see it, someone’s out to make a sequel. You know, cash in on all the movie murder hoopla. So, it’s our job to observe the rules of the sequel. Number one: the body count is always bigger. Number two: the death scenes are always much more elaborate. Carnage candy. And number three: never, ever, under any circumstances, assume the killer is dead.” – Randy
14. “That is so Moral Majority. You can’t blame real-life violence on entertainment.” – Cici
15. “Hey, you’d better check your conscience at the door sweetie. I’m not here to be loved.” – Gale
16. “I don’t know about homicide, but you’ve definitely got me for raising my voice in a public library.” – Cotton
17. “Bitch, hang up the phone and star-69 his ass!” – Maureen Evans
18. “No matter how hard you try you’ll never be the hero and you’ll never ever get the girl.” – Ghostface
19. “Jeeze Gale, you’ve got more lives than a cat.” – Cotton
20. “Stupid people go back! Smart people run! We’re smart people, so we should just get the fuck outta here!” – Hallie
21. “How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn’t merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people’s expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?” – Dewey
22. Dewey: “Typically, serial killers are white males.”
Randy: “That’s why it’s perfect! It’s sort of against the rules but not really. Mrs. Voorhees was a terrific serial killer, and there’s always room for Candyman’s daughter. She’s sweet, she’s deadly, she’s bad for your teeth.”
23. “It’s a perfect example of life imitating art imitating life.” – Mickey
24. “[To Sidney] This is weird isn’t it, to think this fuss is all because of you. I mean, not directly, but in some six degrees of Kevin Bacon-way.” – Sorority sister
Best Scream 3 Quotes
25. “Psychos can’t kill what they can’t find.” – Sidney
26. “Hey Detective, what’s your favorite scary movie?” – Sidney “My life.” – Mark
27. “Well, all I know about trilogies is that in the third one, all bets are off.” – Mark
28. “Woah, woah, just wait one damn minute! There’s a psycho killer on the loose and you wanna go traipsing around this gigantic mansion? Have you ever actually seen the Stab movies? Every time this dude enters a room he ends up a god damn shishkabob!” – Tyson
29. “This is great! Ten more murders and we can publish a calendar.” – Detective Wallace
Best Scream 4 Quotes
30. “You forgot the first rule of remakes, Jill. Don’t fuck with the original!” – Sidney
31. “My friends? What world are you living in? I don’t need friends. I need fans. Don’t you get it? This has never been about killing you? It’s about becoming you. I mean, for fuck’s sake, my own mother had to die, no great loss there, so I could stay true to the original. That’s sick, right? Well, sick is the new sane. You had your 15 minutes, now I want mine! I mean, what am I supposed to do? Go to college? Grad school? Work? Look around. We all live in public now, we’re all on the Internet. How do you think people become famous anymore? You don’t have to achieve anything. You just gotta have fucked up shit happen to you. So you have to die, Sid. Those are the rules. New movie, new franchise. There’s only room for one lead, and let’s face it, your ingenue days, they’re over.” – Jill Roberts
32. “One generation’s tragedy is the next one’s joke.” – Sheriff Dewey
33. “This isn’t a comedy, it’s a horror film. People live, people die and you’d better start running.” – Ghostface
34. “I never said I was in your closet.” – Ghostface
35. “You just won’t die, will you? Who are you? Michael fucking Myers?” – Jill
36. “I hear you like horror movies, Kirby. But do you like them as much as him? Forget watching Stab, instead, you get to live it.” –Ghostface
37. “Oh, poor Sidney. You think this is all about you? You think you’re still the star?” – Ghostface
38. “Why is Sidney Prescott staying with you? I mean, that’s like being on Top Chef with Jeffrey Dahmer.” – Trevor Sheldon
39. “There’s something really scary about a guy with a knife who just… snaps.” – Chloe
40. “Welcome home, Sidney. You’re a survivor, aren’t you, Sidney? What good is it to be a survivor when everyone close to you is dead? You can’t save them. All you can do… is watch.” – Ghostface
41. “[To Sidney] It was the killer’s voice, from Stab. Or, I mean, you know, from your life.” – Kirby
42. “A bunch of articulate teens sit around and deconstruct horror movies until Ghostface kills them one by one. It’s been done to death. The whole self-aware postmodern meta shit. Stick a fork in 1996, already.” – Rachel
Best Scream (2022) Quotes
43. “You got stabbed a billion times, got dumped by your famous wife, and crawled into a bottle. I think it’s safe to say you’re on the suspect list.” – Wes Hicks “Well, maybe you’re the killer. Because that cut deep.” – Dewey
44. “Because nobody takes the true fans seriously, not really. They just laugh at us, and why? Because we love something? We’re just a fucking joke to them! How can fandom be toxic? It’s about love! You don’t fucking understand, these movies are important to people.” – Richie Kirsch
43. “I still prefer The Babadook.” – Tara Carpenter
44. “I’m Sidney fucking Prescott, of course, I have a gun.” – Sidney
45. “See, you can’t just reboot a franchise from scratch anymore. The fans won’t stand for it. Black Christmas, Child’s Play, Flatliners, that shit doesn’t work. But you can’t just do a straight sequel, either. You need to build something new. But not too new or the Internet goes bug-fucking-nuts. It has to be part of an ongoing storyline, even if that story should never have been going on in the first place. New main characters, yes, but supported by, and related to, legacy characters. Not quite a reboot, not quite a sequel, like the new Halloween, Saw, Terminator, Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, fuck, even Star Wars. It always, always goes back to the original!” – Mindy Meeks-Martin
46. “Every time I get attacked, they give me better drugs.” – Tara
47. “That was a test, and you failed. You never go off on your own when there’s a masked killer around.” – Mindy
48. “Every decade or so, some idiot gets the bright idea to put on the mask, kill his friends, and get famous too.” – Sam Carpenter
49. “Are you telling me that I’m caught in the middle of fan fucking fiction?” – Sam Carpenter
Best Scream IV (2023) Quotes
50. “I take a special interest in Ghostface attacks.” – Kirby Reed
51. ” There are certain rules to a franchise.” – Mindy Meeks-Martin
52. “You know, you’re like the tenth guy to try this, right? It never works out for the dips**t in the mask.” – Gale Weathers
53. “Strange that you and I have never spoken on the phone. This is long overdue.” – Ghostface
54. “I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life afraid of monsters. I wanted the monsters to be afraid of me.” – Kirby Reed
55. “Who gives a f**k about the movies.” – Ghostface
56. “What’s your favorite scary movie? … I’m asking because you’re in one now. You’re in my movie.” – Sam Carpenter
57. “I got it wrong again. F**k this franchise!” – Mindy Meeks-Martin
