That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSIWhen a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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 actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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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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 enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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