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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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’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 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
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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

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