The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSIThe former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I never play without my cape.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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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 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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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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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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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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