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.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
Music washes away the dust of every day life.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
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