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

Bela Lugosi

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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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 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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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 actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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 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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
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 win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving

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