Women have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSIPeople, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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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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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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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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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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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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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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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