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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Bela Lugosi

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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
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
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
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
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 play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
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

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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