I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSII 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.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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 stage is near and dear to me.
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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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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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 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 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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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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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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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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