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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

Bela Lugosi

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

Company Film Red
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Important Paycheck Truthful
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSI

Age Dependent Dimes
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

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