Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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