I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSIThe love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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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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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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I never play without my cape.
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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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