I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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I never drink… wine.
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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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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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 play without my cape.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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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