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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.

Bela Lugosi

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
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 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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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 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
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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
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

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