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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

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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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 you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
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
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 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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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