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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.

Bela Lugosi

Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
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

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