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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Bela Lugosi

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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
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
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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 never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years

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