Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSII studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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