There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
BELA LUGOSII have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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 never play without my cape.
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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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I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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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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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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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