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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Bela Lugosi

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
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 several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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 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

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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