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

• The actor was obliged either to bend himself to stultifying odd jobs to keep his body and soul together or he had to sponge off friends, get into debt, or prostitute his art. (Bela Lugosi) [soul & body/sense of duty/art]
• The actor who goes to Budapest should not feel it a degradation if he has to work in the provinces. (Bela Lugosi) [degradation]
• The Black Cat was the picture that secured for me my present stellar part in which I am at last permitted to appear before American audiences in a distinctly romantic characterization. (Bela Lugosi) [present]
• The changes of facial expressionn accompanied various lines or situations, as was necessary. (Bela Lugosi) [changes]
• The drugs had me on the hook. I mean to dehook myself. (Bela Lugosi)
• The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. (Bela Lugosi) [class/actors/ignorance]
• The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible. (Bela Lugosi) [willpower]
• The mortgage company got my house. I sold one car and then the other. I borrowed where I could. (Bela Lugosi) [company/car]
• 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) [role/demand/vampire]
• The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking. (Bela Lugosi) [thinking]
• The stage is near and dear to me. (Bela Lugosi) [stage]
• The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. (Bela Lugosi) [vampire/change]
• There was a great deal I had to unlearn. In the theatre there was exaggeration in everything I did. (Bela Lugosi) [theatre]
• 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) [vampire/type/school/type]
• To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. (Bela Lugosi) [maniac]
• To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula (Bela Lugosi) [take]
• When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same. (Bela Lugosi) [film/company]
• When I switched to methadone, I injected two cubic centimeters of demerol, and I also took barbiturate capsules so I could sleep for eight or 10 hours. (Bela Lugosi)
• Who considered a jobless spook a good risk? (Bela Lugosi)
• Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it. (Bela Lugosi) [movie/status]
• Women have a predestination to suffering. (Bela Lugosi) [women/suffering]
• Women hoped that I was Dracula. They hoped that my love was the love of Dracula. They gloated over the Thing they dared not understand. (Bela Lugosi) [women/love/love/thing]
• Women of America are unsatisfied, famished, craving sensation, even though it be the sensation of death draining the red blood of life. (Bela Lugosi) [women/america/death/blood]
• You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. (Bela Lugosi) [people/horror]

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