When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSIWhen a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSII don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSIThere was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
BELA LUGOSII’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSII have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSIWomen have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSIIt took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSIThe former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSIThat is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSIActors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSIThe 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.
BELA LUGOSII have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
BELA LUGOSIMy body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
BELA LUGOSII’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
BELA LUGOSITo die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSIBecause of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSI