People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSII’ll take any story if it’s good.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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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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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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I never play without my cape.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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!
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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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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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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