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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

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
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
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
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 stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work 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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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Actor Performance Stage
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand

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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