Vincent Price

"The best parts are the heavies. The hero is usually someone who has really nothing to do. He comes out on top, but it's the heavy who has all the fun."

"... the hero is usually a very dull, straightforward guy. He's got to be good."

"Is there a better way to die than ... to be watching a movie and then just drop dead? ... with all over you ..."

"Acting, no matter what they say, is the same kind of art as a or a ist. We are interpretive artists, we interpret the ; the major thing is the script, the . And we are as good as the scriptwriters. A certain couple of movies I’ve done, like , really hold up and are as fresh today as they were 35 years ago, because the script was so good. Laura happened to be a classic movie because it was well made, well cast, and the . That’s the kind of thing one longs to do. One doesn’t get that many of them."

"I think if I have any regret at all about my theatrical career, it was that I didn’t stay longer in the theater. It was very hard to do because the transportation problem was quite serious. It took thirty-five hours to fly out. So you couldn’t really commute to the movie business the way you can do in London. But I wanted to be in movies, because I loved movies. I was a big movie fan. And still am and always have been."

"In a world where slaughter and vicious crimes are daily occurrences, a good ghoulish movie is comic relief."

"Pray, speak quietly, every sound you make is such exquisite agony to me."