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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

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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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 vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil 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

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