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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.

Bela Lugosi

I’ll take any story if it’s good.
BELA LUGOSI

Any Good Stories Take
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
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
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
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
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

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