In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
BELA LUGOSIIt 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.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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.
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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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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I never play without my cape.
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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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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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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