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The stage is near and dear to me.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
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
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean

The stage is near and dear to me.

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