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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

Bela Lugosi

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 never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
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 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
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
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

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