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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Bela Lugosi

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

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