To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSIWomen have a predestination to suffering.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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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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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 never drink… wine.
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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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I never play without my cape.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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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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 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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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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