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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.

Bela Lugosi

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Ambition Character Roles
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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 actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking

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