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.
BELA LUGOSITo win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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I never play without my cape.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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