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

Bela Lugosi

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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Actor Performance Stage
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.
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Cry Horror Over
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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 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
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 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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

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