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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.

Bela Lugosi

If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
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 stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles

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