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I never play without my cape.

Bela Lugosi

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
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
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
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years

I never play without my cape.

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