If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSIBecause of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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 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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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