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

Bela Lugosi

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.
BELA LUGOSI

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
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Cry Horror Over
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Important Paycheck Truthful

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

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