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I’ll take any story if it’s good.

Bela Lugosi

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 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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year 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
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
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
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes

I’ll take any story if it’s good.

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