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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Performance Stage
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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 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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking

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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