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Death, the final, triumphant lover.

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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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 took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
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
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
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
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
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
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking

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