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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi

I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
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 enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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