The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
BELA LUGOSIEvery 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.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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 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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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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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 enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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