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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 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
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human 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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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 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

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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