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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Ambition Character Roles
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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

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