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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 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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees 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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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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Cry Horror Over
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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