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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

Bela Lugosi

I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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 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
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow

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