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

Bela Lugosi

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 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
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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Ambition Character Roles
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 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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

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