I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSIBecause of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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I never play without my cape.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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