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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

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
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
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage

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