Bela Lugosi Quotes
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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I’ve lived here for 20 years and I have been a citizen for 10 years. I hope I am a good one. I know I don’t take it for granted. I feel I am an awfully lucky person to be an American and I think that every naturalized American and every person born in this land should kneel on his knees every morning and utter a prayer for being an American.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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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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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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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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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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I never play without my cape.
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I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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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 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.