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

Bela Lugosi

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 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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
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
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine

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