All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.