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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.

Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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 play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women

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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