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.
BELA LUGOSII never play without my cape.
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 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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I never play without my cape.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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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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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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