I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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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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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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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 never drink… wine.
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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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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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