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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

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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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 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
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
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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies

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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