The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSIPeople, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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I never drink… wine.
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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