Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSII 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.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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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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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 is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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I never drink… wine.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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