It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSIBecause of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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 drink… wine.
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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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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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