What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
Interpretation
An actor's value is determined by their performance rather than their personal life.
Vincent Price highlights that the essence of an actor lies in their ability to perform and connect with an audience through their craft, rather than the details of their private existence. This perspective encourages appreciation for the artistic contribution of actors above personal judgments or public personas.
In practice
In a discussion about the merits of film versus personal scandals, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of artistic talent.
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.
I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.
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.
In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.
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.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
The music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up.
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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