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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

Bela Lugosi

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
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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

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