Bela Lugosi Quotes

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
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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Heart Mind People
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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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Age Dependent Dimes
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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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Agony Blood Race
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles

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