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.
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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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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I never play without my cape.
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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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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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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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