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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

Bela Lugosi

If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
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
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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

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