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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Bela Lugosi

I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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 producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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 stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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
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 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
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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