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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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

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