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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 never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles 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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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 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
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles

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