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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.

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years

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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