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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 never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work 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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
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
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
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
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years

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