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

Bela Lugosi

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI

Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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 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
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSI

Age Dependent Dimes
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Ghouls Play School
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Performance Stage
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful

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