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.
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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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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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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 my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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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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