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.
BELA LUGOSIMartyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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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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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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