Vincent Price Quotes

#1. Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

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#2. San Diego has the finest zoo in America, but the Los Angeles Zoo is not much more than a home for retired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lions.

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#3. If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

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#4. The follower of fashion can be as honest as the leader of the rebellion against it.

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#5. I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

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#6. We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

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#7. The story ends with a crack the actor Hans Conreid made on seeing my two hundred black and white pots. Said Hans, "You're one actor no one will ever be able to say he hasn't got a pot to ... " End quote.

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#8. What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

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#9. It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.

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#10. In order to get out of the dumps, there are many steps to walk up, and most of the ones I know of, not only for myself but others, are made of money.

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#11. There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter,

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#12. Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

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#13. It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.

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#14. In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

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#15. Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?

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#16. Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

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#17. I know what I like - I like art - and I like what I know.

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#18. Many Hollywoodians may have good taste and an interest in culture but they certainly hide it. They're afraid they'll be branded as sissies if someone finds out they write poetry or own a painting. They're so timid about culture.

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#19. A man who limits his interests limits his life.

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#20. No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

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#21. I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.

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#22. I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

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#23. We may all be a peculiar lot ... often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work ... but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

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#24. Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

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#25. I do, however, get along fine with apes and I have worked sack of potatoes in front of the camera. Trainers tell me they like my voice and that because I treat them as people they like me. Well, it's easy to do, since some of them are people and easier to work with than some - people, I mean actors.

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#26. Be curious about life, and cautious with it!

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#27. There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.

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