Bela Lugosi Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Bela Lugosi

  Vampire, Roles, Fever

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• It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

  Bela Lugosi

  Hard Work, Years, Roles

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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.

  Bela Lugosi

  Umpires, People, Hell

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• The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

  Bela Lugosi

  Giving, Actors, Performances

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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.

  Bela Lugosi

  Actors, Stage, Performances

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• I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

  Bela Lugosi

  Play, Interesting, Roles

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

  Bela Lugosi

  Usa, America, Decision

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• Death, the final, triumphant lover.

  Bela Lugosi

  Finals, Lovers, Triumphant

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• Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!

  Bela Lugosi

  Black Cat, Baloney

  "Fictional character: Dr. Vitus Verdegast". "The Black Cat", www.imdb.com. 1934.

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• I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

  Bela Lugosi

  Tears, Torture

  "Fictional character: Dr. Richard Vollin". "The Raven", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

  Bela Lugosi

  Character, Romantic Love, Ghouls

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• Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

  Bela Lugosi

  Roles, Done, Stage

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• Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

  Bela Lugosi

  Actors, States, Capitalist

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• That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.

  Bela Lugosi

  Thinking, Evil, Different

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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.

  Bela Lugosi

  School, Ghouls, Play

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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.

  Bela Lugosi

  Technique, Stage, Thousand

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• The stage is near and dear to me.

  Bela Lugosi

  Stage, Dear

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• The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

  Bela Lugosi

  Thinking, Way, Screens

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• I never play without my cape.

  Bela Lugosi

  Play, Capes

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• In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

  Bela Lugosi

  Moving, Expression, Directors

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• I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

  Bela Lugosi

  Years, Narcotics

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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.

  Bela Lugosi

  Philosophy, Law, Careers

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• I'll take any story if it's good.

  Bela Lugosi

  Stories, Ifs

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• I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

  Bela Lugosi

  Years, Actors, Pleasure

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• If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

  Bela Lugosi

  Imagination, Enemy, Betrayed

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