I had been terrified of
I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn’t afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.
– Jen Lancaster
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- The great thing about candy is that it can’t be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. 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
- I wasn’t allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn’t have candy or soda, or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times ’cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted. So, we would do the baskets, and my sister and I would go crazy. – Kaley Cuoco
- On Halloween, don’t you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don’t eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people’s houses. That used to be such a tease. – Derrick Rose
- I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early ’90s, and hospitals and doctor’s offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She
- My dad loved to ‘arrange things’ to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He’d take us to the old ‘Hermit’s House’ at the edge of town. He’d park the car 100 yards down the street and say, ‘Go back there and get something off the front porch!’ – Bill
- I only eat candy on Halloween. No lie. – Michael Trevino
- I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, ‘I’m going to glitter some pumpkins!’ No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing. –
- I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies. – Joe Manganiello
- As a kid, I liked the ‘Halloween’ movies and ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don’t watch much horror, to be honest. – Corey Feldman
- It’s Mine… If I Think It’s MIne….. It’s Mine If I Think It’s Mine…. It’s Mine If It Looks Like Mine…. It’s Mine If It Is My Hand… It’s Mine If I Can Take It From You…. It’s Mine If I Had It A While Ago… It’s Mine If It Is Your And I Take It…. It’s Mine If It Is In My