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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

Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom

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