The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSISupernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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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