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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

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
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 have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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

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