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.
BELA LUGOSIWithout movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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I never drink… wine.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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I never play without my cape.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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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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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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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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