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

Bela Lugosi

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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Ghouls Play School
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
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 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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
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
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 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
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 former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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 guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking

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

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