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.
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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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 actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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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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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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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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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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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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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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