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Bela Lugosi

I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
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
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 former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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

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