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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People

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