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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
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
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

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