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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

Bela Lugosi

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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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
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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
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 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
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
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies

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