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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Bela Lugosi

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

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