Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
BELA LUGOSIEvery actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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I never drink… wine.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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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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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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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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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