The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSIIn making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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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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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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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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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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