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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

I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles

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