I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSIMy 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.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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