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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
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
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

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