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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Bela Lugosi

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
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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near 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
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
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

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