To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSITo portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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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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 have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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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.
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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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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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