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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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
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’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 never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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

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