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

Bela Lugosi

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
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
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

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