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

Bela Lugosi

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 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 you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
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
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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

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

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