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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.

Bela Lugosi

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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
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
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech

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