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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

Bela Lugosi

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
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 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
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
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 never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women

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