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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.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees 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
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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
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
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
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand

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