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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant

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