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Bela Lugosi

If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
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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Ghouls Play School
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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 several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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

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