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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

Bela Lugosi

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
BELA LUGOSI

Bed Heart Hot Sheets
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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 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
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil 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
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
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
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 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 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

I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

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