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Women have a predestination to suffering.

Bela Lugosi

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
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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Actor Performance Stage
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
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type

Women have a predestination to suffering.

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