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Women have a predestination to suffering.

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
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 producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
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 former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play

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