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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

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
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
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People 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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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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