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Bela Lugosi

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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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 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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
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

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