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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

Bela Lugosi

I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSI

Myself Tears Torture
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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 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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSI

Character Ghouls Romantic Love
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type

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