To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSII will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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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It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSI