The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSIThe love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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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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 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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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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