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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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
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
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
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 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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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 stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat

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