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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 actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
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
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
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking

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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