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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
BELA LUGOSI

Necessary Theory Window
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
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
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 actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Hell People Umpires
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women

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