I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
BELA LUGOSII never play without my cape.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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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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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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I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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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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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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