Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSII have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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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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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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I never drink… wine.
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