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Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
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
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
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
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies

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