Bela Lugosi quotes Born: 10/20/1882 Died: 08/16/1956 Country: hungary

• 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) [knowledge/willpower/time/willpower]
• Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state. (Bela Lugosi) [actors/state]
• Ah, what letters women wrote me! Young girls. Women from 17 to 30. Asking me if I cared only for maiden's blood. (Bela Lugosi) [mail/women/girls/women]
• Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. (Bela Lugosi) [language/speech/heavy]
• Chill drama holds no lure for me as a spectator. (Bela Lugosi)
• Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life. (Bela Lugosi) [personality/people/life]
• Death, the final, triumphant lover. (Bela Lugosi) [death]
• Don't do it. If you do, you'll just be haunting houses the rest of your life, like me. (Bela Lugosi) [rest/life]
• Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman. (Bela Lugosi)
• Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role-but I found this to be almost fataal. (Bela Lugosi)
• Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. (Bela Lugosi) [type]
• For the screen, a great deal of repression was an absolute necessity. (Bela Lugosi) [absolute]
• Give me a chance-give me a tutor, take his salary out of my future earnings, and by the time to start rehearsal I will know my part. (Bela Lugosi) [give/take/future/time]
• Hollywood doesn't let authors, writers, exploit and deliver their talents and imaginations. It has to go through the mill. (Bela Lugosi) [writers]
• Hungary has no navy nor needs any! (Bela Lugosi) [needs]
• I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension. (Bela Lugosi) [food]
• I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession. (Bela Lugosi) [pleasure]
• I fell very much in love with Hope. I needed her kindness, her strength, her care. Fearfully I proposed, and Hope accepted. (Bela Lugosi) [love/care]
• I gain my theatrical diversion most delightfully from the frothiest of screen nonsense. A travel subject or cartoon short is frequently my choice on the film bill. (Bela Lugosi) [choice/film]
• 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. (Bela Lugosi) [people/truth/chance/look]
• I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion. (Bela Lugosi) [think/human]
• I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow. (Bela Lugosi) [vampire]
• I have no dialogue because I was a bit worried whether I could do justice to the expectations. I'm still recuperating. (Bela Lugosi) [dialogue/]
• 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) [stage/find/stage]
• I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo? (Bela Lugosi) [look]
• I must know what I have learned. I must analyse all my theories and be alone to think. I'm going into the mountains. (Bela Lugosi) [think]
• I never play without my cape. (Bela Lugosi)
• I realized that for my own well being I should make some attempt to conserve my mental and physical strength. I knew every inflection required of the character. (Bela Lugosi) [being/attempt/character]
• I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. (Bela Lugosi)
• I used to be the big cheese. Now I'm playing just a dumb part. (Bela Lugosi)
• I used to inject methadone, but I lost 50 pounds. My limbs became just strings of muscle. When I could no longer find a place to inject, that was the end. (Bela Lugosi) [find/start]

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