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I never play without my cape.

Bela Lugosi

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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance

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