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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

Bela Lugosi

Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSI

Done Roles Stage
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers
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
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
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Fever Role Vampire
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
BELA LUGOSI

Career Law Philosophy
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSI

Betrayed Enemy Imagination

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