It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSII’ll take any story if it’s good.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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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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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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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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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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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