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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

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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful

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