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

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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Ghouls Play School
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors

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