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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Bela Lugosi

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
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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
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 never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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

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