Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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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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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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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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