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.
BELA LUGOSIPeople, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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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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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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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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