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I’ll take any story if it’s good.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
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
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
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
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean

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