Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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 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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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