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I’ll take any story if it’s good.

Bela Lugosi

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
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 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
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
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
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race

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