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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi

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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness

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