People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSIWithout movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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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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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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