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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Bela Lugosi

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
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
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
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
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 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
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking

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