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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
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
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
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

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