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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

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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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 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 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
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
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

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