It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSITo die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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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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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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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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I never play without my cape.
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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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