The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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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 never drink… wine.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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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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