To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSIEvery producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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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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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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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I never drink… wine.
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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 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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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