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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi

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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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

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