It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSII’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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 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 actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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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I never play without my cape.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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