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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years

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