When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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My 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.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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 guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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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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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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I never drink… wine.
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