If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSII have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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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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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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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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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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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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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