Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSIIt 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.
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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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 never drink… wine.
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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 be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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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 take any story if it’s good.
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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