It's as much fun to scare as to be scared. Vincent Price More Quotes by Vincent Price More Quotes From Vincent Price I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it. Vincent Price sick race dark 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. Vincent Price laughter tears art 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. Vincent Price personality doors people 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. Vincent Price kings men children Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were? Vincent Price suspects awake eye I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge. Vincent Price fate revenge men In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement. Vincent Price violent matter art A man who limits his interests limits his life. Vincent Price interest limits men There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter. Vincent Price juicy soul firsts 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. Vincent Price horror actors writing 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. Vincent Price running believe thinking Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others. Vincent Price excitement available art 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. Vincent Price there-comes-a-time determine mind 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. Vincent Price balls squares peculiar One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death. Vincent Price maturity men art Be curious about life, and cautious with it! Vincent Price cautious curious life 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? Vincent Price cacophony enough grass 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. Vincent Price college mean thinking I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life. Vincent Price crazy inspiration spiritual 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. Vincent Price cracks art fall
