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

Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work 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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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Cry Horror Over
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
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women

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