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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.

Bela Lugosi

I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
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
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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’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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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 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
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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand

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