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

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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 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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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

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