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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

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
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
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
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
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 portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer

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