I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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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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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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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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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