Bela Lugosi Quotes
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
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In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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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Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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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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I'll take any story if it's good.
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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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.