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.
BELA LUGOSIThe love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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