I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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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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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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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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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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The 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.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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