In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSII enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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 drink… wine.
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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned 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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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