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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.

Bela Lugosi

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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
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
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 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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
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
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage

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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