In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
BELA LUGOSII 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.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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 actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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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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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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