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

Bela Lugosi

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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Actor Performance Stage
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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 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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People 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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean

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