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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Bela Lugosi

I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech

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