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.
BELA LUGOSIEvery actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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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 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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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I never play without my cape.
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