I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
BELA LUGOSII enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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I never play without my cape.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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