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.
BELA LUGOSIPeople, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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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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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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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I never play without my cape.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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 lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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I never drink… wine.
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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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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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