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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
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
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
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 win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red

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