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.
BELA LUGOSIIt 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.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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I never drink… wine.
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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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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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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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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