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If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Bela Lugosi

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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.
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Agony Blood Race
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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.
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Heart Mind People
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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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Stage Technique Thousand
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.
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Hell People Umpires
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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Age Dependent Dimes
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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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Ghouls Play School
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
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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Actor Performance Stage
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.
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Cry Horror Over
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

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