Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
BELA LUGOSIIf my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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I never drink… wine.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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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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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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