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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
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 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
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
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
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
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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

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