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Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Bela Lugosi

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
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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Agony Blood Race
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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 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
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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

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