Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSIThe vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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 making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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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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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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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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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