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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

Bela Lugosi

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

Amusement Hollywood Type
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
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees 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
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Ambition Character Roles
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States

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