In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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