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Bela Lugosi

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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
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
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 is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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Cry Horror Over
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture

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