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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

Bela Lugosi

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
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 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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles 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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
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
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles

I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

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