Vincent Price Quotes

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

I don't really like horror shows, horror movies, or any of that. I'm really a lightweight, in terms of that.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.

I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.

For me, I would say that horror is my absolute favorite form of entertainment.

The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.

When I'm doing a role the one thing I ask is 'Is this believable? am I being truthful?'

I've been a huge horror fan since I was about eight years old, which is a little bit young to be watching scary movies.

Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

I haven't done lots of horror.

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.