I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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I never drink… wine.
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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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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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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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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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