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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

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
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
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year 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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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