You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
BELA LUGOSITo die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I never drink… wine.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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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