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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Bela Lugosi

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSI

heavy Language Speech
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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 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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People 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
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Ghouls Play School
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years

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