Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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 never drink… wine.
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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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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 never play without my cape.
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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