Vincent Price Quotes

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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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Never
  • Consciousness

• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Fashion
  • End

• The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Success
  • Benefits
  • U.S.

• Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Reading
  • Standardized

• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Left
  • August
  • Stayed

• The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Love
  • Spirit
  • Memories

• The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Star

• Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Know
  • Find

• It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Reality
  • Stop
  • Problem

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Society
  • Know
  • Short

• When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Movie

• The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Political
  • More
  • Events

• I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Me
  • Listening

• Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Think

• I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Crime

• We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Doubt
  • Civilization
  • Excellence

• Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Military

• Naturally, people are curious about how my real mom feels about me having a TV mom.

  

  Rico Rodriguez
  • People
  • Mom
  • Curious

• I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

  

  Kinky Friedman
  • Realized
  • Went
  • Baptist

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

  

  Vincent Price
  • Mystery
  • Actresses
  • Breeding