I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSISupernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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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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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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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 role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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