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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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil 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
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
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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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