In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSIEvery actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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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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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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I never play without my cape.
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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.
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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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The stage is near and dear to me.
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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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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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