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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

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
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
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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year 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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years

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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