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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

Bela Lugosi

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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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Cry Horror Over
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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 producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat

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