People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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 have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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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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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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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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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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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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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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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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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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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