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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi

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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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