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

Bela Lugosi

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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 never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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 have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
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 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
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving

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