The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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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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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 portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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