Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSITo portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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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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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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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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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 portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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