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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Bela Lugosi

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
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
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
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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Fever Role Vampire
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

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