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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

Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
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 drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
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
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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Fever Role Vampire
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years

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

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