If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSIIt took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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 role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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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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