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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

Bela Lugosi

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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
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
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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
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
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
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 portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

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