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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

Bela Lugosi

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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
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

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