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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

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees 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
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 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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
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 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
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking

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