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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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 my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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 actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women

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