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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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSI

Age Dependent Dimes
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean

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