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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.

Bela Lugosi

I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
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
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’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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
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
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
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
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 making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women

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