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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Bela Lugosi

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 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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
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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Ambition Character Roles
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
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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Fever Role Vampire

Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

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