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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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 portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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 have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years

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