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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

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
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
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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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