Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
BELA LUGOSISupernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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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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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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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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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 enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I never play without my cape.
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