If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSII never drink… wine.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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