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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.

Bela Lugosi

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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
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

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