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

Bela Lugosi

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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
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
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
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
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
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
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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness

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