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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.

Bela Lugosi

I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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 portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees 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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors

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