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.
BELA LUGOSIIn making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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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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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps 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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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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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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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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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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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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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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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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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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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