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

Bela Lugosi

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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 never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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 never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
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 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
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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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

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