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

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving

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