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The stage is near and dear to me.

Bela Lugosi

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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
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
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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

The stage is near and dear to me.

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