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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

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
BELA LUGOSI

Cry Horror Over
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
BELA LUGOSI

Interesting Play Roles
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
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
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSI

Betrayed Enemy Imagination
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women

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