There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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 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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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 never drink… wine.
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