It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSIWomen have a predestination to suffering.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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