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.
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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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I never drink… wine.
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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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It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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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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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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I never play without my cape.
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