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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Bela Lugosi

That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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 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
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

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