In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSIIf you are not serious, people will sense it.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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 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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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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I never drink… wine.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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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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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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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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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