Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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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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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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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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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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