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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

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
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
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
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand

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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