Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSIThe 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.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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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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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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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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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 never play without my cape.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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I never drink… wine.
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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