Bela Lugosi quotes
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“People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.”
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“Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.”
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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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.”
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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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“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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“To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.”
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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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“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.”
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“It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.”
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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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“If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.”
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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 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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“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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“The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.”
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“I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?”
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“That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.”
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“Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.”
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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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“Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.”
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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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“The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.”
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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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“When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.”
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“Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.”
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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 never drink... wine.”
-- Bela LugosiSource : "Fictional character: Count Dracula". "Dracula", 1931.
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“To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.”
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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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“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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“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'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.”
-- Bela LugosiSource : "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.
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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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“If you are not serious, people will sense it.”
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“I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!”
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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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“In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.”
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“In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.”
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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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“Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.”
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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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“I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.”
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“The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.”
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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.”
-- Bela Lugosi
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