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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

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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 took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
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

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