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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.

Bela Lugosi

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Giving Performance
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness

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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