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.
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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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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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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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I never play without my cape.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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