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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
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
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles

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