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

Bela Lugosi

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People 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
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
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSI

Betrayed Enemy Imagination

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