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.
BELA LUGOSIEvery actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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 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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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I never drink… wine.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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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