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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

I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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

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