I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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