Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSII don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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 enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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