I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSIIt took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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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’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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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 guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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