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The stage is near and dear to me.

Bela Lugosi

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
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
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
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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