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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.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles

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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