Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSII never play without my cape.
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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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 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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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The stage is near and dear to 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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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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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