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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

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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
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

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