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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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 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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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

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