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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Bela Lugosi

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red

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