The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSISupernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to 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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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 never play without my cape.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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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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