I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSITo win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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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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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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 never play without my cape.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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