I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSIPeople, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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 actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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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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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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I never play without my cape.
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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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