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.
BELA LUGOSIIt 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.
BELA LUGOSIThe 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.
BELA LUGOSISupernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSIPeople, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSIIt 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.
BELA LUGOSII will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSIThat is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSII never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSIYou can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
BELA LUGOSII’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
BELA LUGOSITo win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSIIt took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSICircumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
BELA LUGOSIWhen a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSII 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 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.
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