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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.

Bela Lugosi

I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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

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