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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

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
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 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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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 former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean

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