I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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I never play without my cape.
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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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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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