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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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

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