Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSIThe love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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 enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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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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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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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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 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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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