Vincent Price

Vincent Price in 1959

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor.

Quotes

• 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.
  • From a syndicated article, as cited in "100 movies — and all horrors", The Herald-News (Newsweek Feature Service, 30 July 1971), p. 21

• 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.
  • Oral history interview with Vincent Price (August 1992)

• In a world where slaughter and vicious crimes are daily occurrences, a good ghoulish movie is comic relief.
  • Undated quote, as cited in "Vincent Price, Noted Actor Of Dark Roles, Dies at 82", The New York Times (October 27, 1993)

Misattributed

• Pray, speak quietly, every sound you make is such exquisite agony to me.
  • Variously misattributed to Price's performances in the films Witchfinder General and House of Usher, but this line appears in neither of these films. The quote appears to have been based on a misremembering by Stephen Fry on an episode of QI. The actual lines Fry appears to have referenced are "If you'd please, Mr. Winthrop...softly. An affliction of the hearing. Sounds of any exaggerated degree cut into my brain like knives" and "Any sort of garment other then the softest, is agony to my flesh. My eyes are tormented by all but the faintest illumination. Odors assail me constantly, and as I've said, sounds of any degree whatsoever inspire me with terror."

External links

• Official Site