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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Bela Lugosi

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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

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