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Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Bela Lugosi

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Ghouls Play School
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
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 former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
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

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

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