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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

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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 never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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’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
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
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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Cry Horror Over

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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