The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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I never play without my cape.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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I never drink… wine.
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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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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.
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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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