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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.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage

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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