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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful

I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

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