If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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