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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

Bela Lugosi

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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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 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
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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

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