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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi

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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking

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