To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSIWithout movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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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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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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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 actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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