When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSII’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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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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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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 never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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