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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year 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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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

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