Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSIYou can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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 former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am 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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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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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I never play without my cape.
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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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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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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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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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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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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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