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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.
BELA LUGOSI

Agony Blood Race
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
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
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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Fever Role Vampire
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Giving Performance
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI

Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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 never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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