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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Bela Lugosi

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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years

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