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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

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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.
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Cry Horror Over
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow

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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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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