I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSIActors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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 vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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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 former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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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.
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