Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSIIf you are not serious, people will sense it.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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 never play without my cape.
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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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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 never drink… wine.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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