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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi

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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
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
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.
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Hell People Umpires
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People 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
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
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
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

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