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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

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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
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
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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 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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year 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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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

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