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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.

Bela Lugosi

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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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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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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