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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

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year 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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires

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