Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSICircumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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To win a woman, take her with you to see 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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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