Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSIBecause of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to 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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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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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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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I never drink… wine.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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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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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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