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

Bela Lugosi

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
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
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
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
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women

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