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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.

Bela Lugosi

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
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
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States

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