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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.

Bela Lugosi

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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
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
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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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

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