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Vincent Price Biography

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films. His career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, radio, and more than one hundred films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, and one for television. Born and raised near St. Louis, Missouri, Price also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

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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.

Actors, Exponents, Horror, Make, Writing

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

Art, Create, Excitement, Ifs, Love

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

Firsts, Juicy, Nothing, Soul, Succulent

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

Art, Matter, Mutual, Violent

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?

Afford, Cacophony, Daily, Enough, Grass, Owe

Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence. ' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.

Agreed, Believe, Running, Says, Thinking

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

Acting, Actor, Actors, Important, Life

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

Interest, Interests, Life, Limits, Men

I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty. . . it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

Art, Eye, Know, Mouth, Take, Thinking

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.

Admit, Art, Care, Laughter, Tears, Work

There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.

Come, Doors, Know, People, Personality

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.

Balls, Broke, Peculiar, Square, Squares, World

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

Actresses, Breeding, Gene, Genes, Mystery, Played

I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn.

College, Diploma, Mean, Thinking, Thirst

Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Event, Events, Interpretation, Perfectly, Sometimes, Way

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

Actors, Ends, Nothing, Sculptors, Snow

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.

Children, Empire, Fitting, Kings, Men, Stumbling

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

Dark, Impersonating, Love, Race, Sick

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.

Art, Cracks, Crevices, Fall, Fill, Work

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

Awake, Eye, Eyes, Grown, Suspect, Suspects