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.
BELA LUGOSIThat is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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I never drink… wine.
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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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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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