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Bela Lugosi [1882-1956] Austrian

Rank: 102
Actor

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor, famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.

Women, Chance, Food, Imagination, Romantic, Truth

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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.		101
My close-up was magnificent!		102
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.		103
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.	Food	104
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.	Chance, Truth	105
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.	Women	106
I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.		107
Women have a predestination to suffering.	Women	108
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.		109
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?		110
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.		111
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.		112
Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.		113
I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.		114
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.		115
I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.		116
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.		117
Death, the final, triumphant lover.		118
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.	Romantic	119
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.		120
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.		121
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.		122
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.		123
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.	Imagination	124
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.		125
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.		126
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.		201
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.		202
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.		203
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.		204
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.		205
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.		206
In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.		207
If you are not serious, people will sense it.		208
I'll take any story if it's good.		209
I never play without my cape.		210
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.		211
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.		212
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.		213
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.		214
The stage is near and dear to me.		215
The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.		216
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.		217
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.		218
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.		219
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.		220
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.		221
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.		222

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