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.
BELA LUGOSII have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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I never play without my cape.
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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