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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
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
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Fever Role Vampire
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years

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