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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

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
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
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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 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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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

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

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