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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People

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