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I’ll take any story if it’s good.

Bela Lugosi

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work 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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States

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