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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

Bela Lugosi

Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI

Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years

I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

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