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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.

Bela Lugosi

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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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 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
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window

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