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I’ll take any story if it’s good.

Bela Lugosi

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
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
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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Cry Horror Over
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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

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