When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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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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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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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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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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