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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

Bela Lugosi

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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer

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