Bela Lugosi Quotes

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Bela Lugosi

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 20, 1882

The stage is near and dear to me.

Bela Lugosi

I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.

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

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

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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

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

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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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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 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.

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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

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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 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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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

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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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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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