Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSIOf all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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I never drink… wine.
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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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