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

Bela Lugosi

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People 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
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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 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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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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