The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSII’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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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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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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