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Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Bela Lugosi

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
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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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

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