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

Bela Lugosi

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Take Winning Women
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Hell People Umpires
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSI

Director Expression Moving
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers

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