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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

Bela Lugosi

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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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 took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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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Age Dependent Dimes
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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 bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
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
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
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

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