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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

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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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