I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
BELA LUGOSISupernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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’ll take any story if it’s good.
BELA LUGOSII’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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.
BELA LUGOSIEvery 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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSII have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSIIf you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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.
BELA LUGOSIIt 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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
BELA LUGOSIThe actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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.
BELA LUGOSIIn 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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSITo win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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.
BELA LUGOSIThere 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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