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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

Bela Lugosi

I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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 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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSI

Challenges Compelling Offer
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 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

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