Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSIA 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.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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 never play without my cape.
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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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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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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